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...1 THE INFANCY OF AIRPOWER. . . . . . . . . .3 2 NAVAL AVIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 AIRPOWER IN WORLD WAR I . . . . . . . . . 11 4 LAYING THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS, 1919–1931 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5 AN AGE OF INNOVATION, 1931–1941 ...

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...nt and Legacy of William Mitchell’s Strategic Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Lt Col Mark A. Clodfelter 4 The Influence of Aviation on the Evolution of American Naval Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Dr. David R. Mets 5 Airpower Thought in Continental Europe between the Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Dr. James S. Corum 6 Inte...

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...Minelaying by the U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF) had to overcome the absence of doctrine, serious questions of service autonomy, and preconceptions about naval and air force traditional roles. Though this initially unappreciated weapon gained considera...

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...’S "OUTER ZONE" -1942-1945............10 Early Plans and Capability U.S. Navy Submarine and Surface Laid Mines Air Operations Minelaying by Naval Aviation 4. AAF MINELAYING IN JAPAN/S "INNER ZONE" -1945...............18 Planning "Operation Starvation LeMay and the XXI Bomber Command 5. PLAN AND REALITY -THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AAF AERIAL MINELAYING............26 Pla...

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...perations in Africa since 1960. Using case study methodology, it emphasizes the operational level of war and analyzes the use of the different French army, air force, and naval aviation operational roles; the adaptation of equipment to conditions in Africa; and the changes in the French- African policy that have influenced the use of airpower....

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...s Ferrying Command . . . . . . . .27 June 1942 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 The Air Transport Command . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Army Air Force Regulation 20-44 . . . . . . . . 65 The Nexus of Policy and Doctrine . . . . . . .67 White and Green: Doctrinal Hallmarks . . . . .72 The Strategic Airlift Heritage of World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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...00 TV sets; 210,000 receiver sets Defense Forces Branches: Albanian People's Army, Fron- tier Troops, Interior Troops, Albanian Coastal Defense Comman... ...iver sets; 1 satellite ground station Defense Forces Branches: Armed Forces, Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie Military manpower: males 15-4... ...es (0.5 per 100 popl.); 16 AM, 13 FM, 2 TV stations Defense Forces Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force/ Air Defense; paramilitary forces People's Defense ... ...; 30-station domestic satellite net- work Defense Forces Branches: Argentine Army, Navy of the Argentine Republic, Argentine Air Force, National Genda... ...tellite service Defense Forces Branches: Royal Australian Navy, Austra- lian Army, Royal Australian Air Force Military manpower: males 15-49, 4,317,00... ...rces Branches: Lao People's Army (LPA, which consists of an army with naval, aviation, and militia elements), Air Force, National Police Department Mi... ...velopment O IFC: International Finance Corporation ICAO: International Civil Aviation Organization UPU: Universal Postal Union ITU: International Tele... ...," UN) ICAC International Cotton Advisory Committee ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization (UN) ICCAT ICCO International Commission for the Co...

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...the second time in order to force the removal of the former. The Kosovo Liberation Army, an American anti- Milosevic pet, provoked a civil war in Ma... ...r constitutions and ordinances (and in international law). Only state organs - the army, the police - are permitted to kill, torture, and incarcera... ...nence of the military in republican Rome. Yet, this is misleading. The role of the army in the Roman republic was enshrined in the centuriate assem... ... voting collective) and the consuls, magistrates in chief were, invariably, former army generals. Though many American presidents, starting with Ge... ...sentially private armies. Lucius Cornelius Sulla, an impoverished aristocrat turned army commander, actually attacked Rome itself twice. The turnin... ...mports by 62 percent. China is an avid consumer of Russian electricity generation, aviation, space, laser, and nuclear technologies. Russian firms ...

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...oved to Long Beach, California. My brother, Erik, works there too, also in aviation.” Lacey wanted to know more, everything, about Jake. She was disma... ...erts for Mexico. Travel at night, or alone, was not rec- ommended, but the army was patrolling border cities and travel was common. Yes, I can do it! ... ...ty- seven passengers from San Diego on a shopping and lunch tour. When the army closed in, the gang members shot out the tire on the bus and took some... ...n so the gunmen under siege could escape without being shot by the Mexican Army on the scene. So far there had been no demands and no contact from the...

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...at a consumer cooperative or in stores operated by charities such as the Salvation Army. Voluntary blood contributions are nonprofit tangibles too;... ... their ad billings in with commercial advertising. Examples include the Salvation Army, CARE, many fund raisers, public goods of the U.S. governmen... ...asonable that objective attainment should spell demise. For an extreme example, an army is better equipped and better trained at the end of the war ... ...ral lag -- based on a large body of empirical work that ranged from agriculture to aviation -- suggested that cultural adoption, a group process, alw...

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... quiver in 1991-2 induced by the war in Iraq - or by the contraction of defense and aviation industries following the end of the Cold War? Probably ... ...y so many ships can be guided by a lighthouse, only so many people defended by the army and police. This is called "crowding" and amounts to the ex... ...e and epidemiological policies (not to mention the laws related to air travel and aviation). The list is interminable. Once a law is enacted - wh...

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...major and significant the resources are. Still, if a person volunteered to join the army and a contract has been signed between the parties, then th... ... this not the very quiddity of the oppressive state, its laws, police, prisons, and army? Are the origins of the coercive state and its justificati... ...s of Jewish scientists and scholars, the modern Israeli is proud of his invincible army and thriving economy. But they all share a sense of privile... ... proprietors of the Middle East are its long-term inhabitants, the Arabs. A strong army is not a guarantee of longevity - see the examples of the U... ...culture or civilization, to specific human institutions (the Church, the State, the Army), or to an ideology. These human constructs allocate roles ... ...e and epidemiological policies (not to mention the laws related to air travel and aviation). The list is interminable. Once a law is enacted - wh...

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...major and significant the resources are. Still, if a person volunteered to join the army and a contract has been signed between the parties, then th... ... this not the very quiddity of the oppressive state, its laws, police, prisons, and army? Are the origins of the coercive state and its justificati... ...s of Jewish scientists and scholars, the modern Israeli is proud of his invincible army and thriving economy. But they all share a sense of privile... ... proprietors of the Middle East are its long-term inhabitants, the Arabs. A strong army is not a guarantee of longevity - see the examples of the U... ...culture or civilization, to specific human institutions (the Church, the State, the Army), or to an ideology. These human constructs allocate roles ... ...e and epidemiological policies (not to mention the laws related to air travel and aviation). The list is interminable. Once a law is enacted - wh...

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...worked world. It is a worldwide library created and maintained by a small army of dedicated volunteers who scan, proofread, and upload dozens of new... ...idemiological policies (not to mention the laws related to air travel and aviation). The list is interminable. Once a law is enacted - which refle...

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...han it experienced; it was steadily beating the spirit out of the Ger- man army and shoving it back towards Germany. Only peace can, I believe, preven... ... And upon the roads and beside them was the enormous equipment of a modern army advancing. Everywhere I saw new roads being made, railways pushed up, ... ...ino offensive, which exhausted Austria, wasted the flower of the Hungarian army and led directly to the Galician disasters and the intervention of Rum... ...inary condition for the method upon which the great generals of the French army rely in this sani- tary task of shoving the German Thing off the soil ... ...me to see me upon some copyright matter in 1912. He broached the view that aviation would destroy de- mocracy, because he said only aristocrats make a... ...onvenient to the examination of the photographs. And, as I say, the German army knows of this, and knows that it cannot prevent it because of its aeri... ...d that none but the French could hope to beat it. On the Western front the aviation has been screwed up to a very much higher level than on the Ital- ... ...heavy traffic, sometimes the dusty road is clear ahead, now we pass a vast aviation camp, now a park of waiting field guns, now an encampment of caval...

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...ring shapes of silvered steel. At the same time a new impetus was given to aviation by the relatively enormous power for weight of the atomic engine, ... ...of soldiering, first as an officer in the English infantry and then in the army of pacification. His book tells all these things so simply and at the ... ...uld our Great Departed Stand in the Rain?’ He learnt the rather ath- letic aviation of those days at the University grounds at 39 H G Wells Sydenham,... ...l qualification and a certain precocious cor- pulence that handicapped his aviation indicated the infan- try of the line as his sphere of training. Th... ...as supposed to fight on foot with a rifle and be the main por- tion of the army. There were cavalry forces (horse soldiers), having a ratio to the inf... ...engineer- ing arm, concerned with motor transport, motor-bicycle scouting, aviation, and the like. 40 The World Set Free No first-class intelligence ... ...riggs, and that very able King’s Counsel, Philbrick, had reconstructed the army frequently and thoroughly and placed it at last, with the adop- tion o... ...d reso- lutely to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly... ... last these directing intelligences remained mysterious to the body of the army, veiled under the name of ‘Orders.’ There was no Napoleon, no Caesar t...

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... before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which is a miss ... ...t in 1908, when flying was still almost incredible, M. Ader published his “Aviation Militaire.” Well, that was eight years ago, and men have been figh... ...ng, the Allies as contem- porary soldiers. They were going to fight a 1900 army with a 1914 army, and their whole opening scheme was based on the conv... ...that seem to form the chief reading of our military experts, said that the army that entrenches is a defeated army. The silly dictum was repeated and ... ...against science, discipline, and priggishly keeping fit enough to join the army, as very good fun indeed, good matter for some jolly reeling ballad ab... ...ship with influential people can save either shipown- ers or coalowners or army contractors to the end. There will be no end until these profit-making... ...inimum of friction, taking on its soldiers as they are discharged from the army as em- ployees with a minimum waste of time and a minimum of social di...

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...gesting here that the League of Free Nations shall practically control the army, navy, air forces, and armament industry of every nation in the world.... ...- rine for submarine and cast gun for gun, to sweep all her youth into her army, to subdue her trade, her literature, her education, her whole life to... ... or before the eighteenth century, regardless of the fact that a man or an army or an aeroplane can get in a few minutes or a few hours to points that... ...s atlas and consider one or two propositions. And, first, let him think of aviation. I can assure him, because upon this matter I have some special kn... ... disciplined man can- not be a versatile man, and on the whole the British army has been as receptive to novelties as any. The German gener- 67 H.G. ...

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...ot (for- merly Mrs. Noah) who, if I remember rightly , converted them into Army sausage by means of a portion of the inside of an old alarum clock. My... ...eyes, now the hoardings flamed with election plac- ards, now the Salvation Army and now the unemployed came trailing in procession through the winter-... .... But we ought to get in some German, you know,—for those who like it. The army men will be wanting it some of these days.” He referred to the organis... ...o had seized the Navy, the Bank and other advan- tages) against a royalist army—reinforced by Germans—ad- vancing for reasons best known to themselves... ...ush of victory gave place to the realisation of defeat. Far away there our army showed itself human, mor- tal and human in the sight of all the world,... ..., who had travelled and hunted; explorers, keen mo- torists, interested in aviation, active in army organisation. Good, brown-faced stuff they were, b...

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...-shelf against a wall rubbed black and scattered with official notices and army recruiting-posters. The damp, yellow-brick schoolbuilding in its cinde... ...oth was actually begun! On what specific reform should she first loose her army? Dur- ing the gossip after the meeting Mrs. George Edwin Mott remarked... ... served as tribal gods the mines, cotton-mills, motor-factories, colleges, army. The East remembered generations when there had been no railroad, and ... ...istment and draft, the sons of Lyman Cass, Nat Hicks, Sam Clark joined the army. But most of the sol- diers were the sons of German and Swedish farmer... ...’m to go to Washing- ton as a dollar a year man for the government, in the aviation motor section, and tell them how much I don’t know about carbureto... ...t about his retiring and about his being killed, but I know he’s got a big army back of him, and he’ll show these damn agitators, lazy beggars hunting...

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...h was running on night shift to fill an order of trac- tors for the Polish army. It hummed like a million bees, glared through its wide windows like a... ... there’d been some mistake—I thought they were putting me in the Salvation Army collection-box! At seven per each and every diem! Gosh!” “Yuh, I’ve he... ... newspapers interviewed him on prohibi- tion, Ireland, unemployment, naval aviation, the rate of exchange, tea-drinking versus whisky-drinking, the ps... ...four armies, depending on age. Every- body gets a military rank in his own army according to how many members he brings in, and the duffers that lie d... ...has got to give salutes and all the rest of that junk, just like a regular army, to make ‘em feel it’s worth while to get rank. “Then, second: Course ... ...She was not likely to die, he learned. The bullet from Paul’s huge old .44 army revolver had smashed her shoulder and torn upward and out. He wandered...

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...les and corners. You’ve got to think of Parliament and abroad. There’s the army, there’s diplomacy. There’s the Empire. You can be a Cecil Rhodes if y... ...p his time and distracted his attention. There was, as yet, no practicable aviation to beguile a young man of spirit, but there were times when Benham...

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...New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in the Intelligence Community 86...

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...ion— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in the Intelligence Community ... ... border control, the flow of assets to terrorist organizations, commercial aviation, the role of congressional oversight and resource allocation, and ... ...e learned that the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this threat co... ...ified item in his back pocket, clipped to its rim. 15 When the local civil aviation security office of the Federal Aviation Admin- istration (FAA) lat... ...nted document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebra... ...d States rushed out of Somalia in shame and dis- grace.” Citing the Soviet army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as proof that a ragged army of dedicated... ... international jihad con- federation. In Sudan, he established an “Islamic Army Shura” that was to serve as the coordinating body for the consortium o... ...rorist organizations that were still independent. In building this Islamic army , he enlisted groups from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jor- dan, Lebanon, Iraq... ...oup from southern Y emen headed by a Y emeni member of Bin Ladin’s Islamic Army Shura; some in the group had trained at an al Qaeda camp in Sudan. 44 ...

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...917, he became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of Military Aeronautics at eight universities to provide ground school training for aviation cadets, and then in Issoudun, France, Bingham commanded the primary Air Service flying school. He became a supporter of the Air Service in their post-war quest for independence from the Army and supported that effort...

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... careful as hell not to get in wrong. If ye once get in wrong in this damn army … it’s hell.” “You bet yer life … so they sent ye over to our company,... ...tart to ride ye, show fight. Ye’ve got to be hard boiled to git on in this army.” “Ye’re goddam right,” said the tall youth. “Don’t let ‘em ride yer …... ...his typewriter … . Private Coe Elbert” … click, click. “Damn these rotten army typewriters … . Reason … mental deficiency. History of Case … . “ At t... ...morning. Directed by the corporal, a bandy- legged Italian who even on the army diet managed to keep a faint odour of garlic about him, three soldiers... ... was a flush under the tan of the boyish face. “Ah didn’t git in this here army to be ordered around by a goddam wop,” he muttered. “Doesn’t matter mu... ...d a heap of money, them guys,” said the man who was with him, a private in Aviation. “Let’s go have a drink.” Fuselli was silent and absorbed in his t... ...hey didn’t mind having naked women about, did they?” said the private in Aviation, a morose foul-mouthed little man who had been in the woolen busi... ...on the asphalt. “Let’s go have another drink,” said the private in Aviation. Fuselli looked at his watch; they had hours before train time. A ... ... some other girl. “Must have been immoral, them guys,” said the private in Aviation, leering at the girl in the dirty blouse. Fuselli remembered a rev...

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... be extremely hard to hit with any sort of missile. I do not think a large army of under-educated, under-trained, extremely unwilling con- scripts is ... ...er war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-lucky Army that it was possible to 9 H. G . Wells make a military use of barbed ... ...e sudden downfalls are the least pleasant and most dangerous experience in aviation. They exact a tiring vigilance. Over lake or sea, in sunshine, wit... ....) THE BUNTING and the crimson vanish from the streets. Al- ready the vast army of improvised carpenters that the Coro- nation has created set themsel... ...demands an imagina- tive alertness we eliminate. I do not believe that the Army Council or anyone in authority has worked out a tithe of the essential... ... in 1890, and so far as I am able to judge the most modern sections of the army extant are organised for a colonial war in (say) 1899 or 1900. There i... ... project as dream-like to- day as electric lighting, electric traction, or aviation would have been in the year 1850. In 1850 a man reasonably con- ve... ...reater supply of able educated men, versa- tile men capable of engines, of aviation, of invention, of lead- ing and initiative. We need more laborator... ...and a great array of new colleges, a much readier access to instruction in aviation and military and naval practice. And if we are to have national se...

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...n, etc.) and the section itself was affiliated with a branch of the French army, fraternization was easy . Now when he saw that we had not the slighte... ...ions would be affiliated with the American, and no longer with the French, Army) we three at any rate might be allowed to continue our association wit... ... he ig- nored this little digression, and wanted to know: Why not American aviation?—to which I answered: “Ah, but as my friend has so often said to m... ...to say that my friend was not only trying to avoid serving in the American Army but was contemplating treason as well?” I asked. “Well, that would be ... ...slator on occasion. T wice a week the camp was visited by a regular French army doctor (médecin major) who was supposed to prescribe in severe cases a... ... a French girl extend an apple to one of the common soldiers as the German army entered the outskirts of the city: “‘T ake it,’ she said, ‘you are tir...