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...This analysis takes a didactic approach. It attempts to demystify the aura surrounding operational design by presenting a theoretical framework for comprehending its fundamental precepts. The goals of this analysis are threefold: provide a methodological example for understanding and applying design, show how design enhanc...

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...1 The Process of Operational Design 1 2 Developing an Operational Approach 21 3 Methodology for Understanding and Employing Operational Design 31 4 Establishing the Link between Operational Design and Decision Analysis 59 5 Operational Design and Cou...

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...This paper examines the current USAF criteria for inducting C-130 aircraft into programmed depot maintenance (PDM) based on the mission, design, and series (MDS) of the aircraft. An alternative approach using an analytical model is developed in an attempt to refine the current process....

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...The predictable nature of American strategic bombing may make it vulnerable to a perceptive enemy. By offering him the opportunity to design, test, and employ countermeasures, American air commanders may have inadvertently limited their ability to achieve success....

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...h he would have made 52 A Set of Six use of Gaspar Ruiz for his nefarious designs, yet he soon became aware that to propitiate the Chilian Govern-men... ... round the fort. To- wards daybreak I was not surprised to hear that I was designated to command the escort of a prisoner who was to be sent down at o...

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..., social interactions, and individual learning styles. This means the Air Force needs a stronger focus on affective learning during the instructional design (ID) process for education and training....

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...effective and efficient operations in support of the joint force commander’s requirements. The study presents six questions to aid a commander in the design of an adaptable C2 structure. The answers to these questions will assist the commander in identifying the lowest appropriate organizational level to integrate operations. The questions address the following issues: the...

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...mmand and Control Structures 2 Analytical Model 2 results of the Analysis 5 Guidelines for Adaptive Command and Control 6 Using the Influences to Design Adaptive Command and Control 10 Organize, train, and equip: Observations and recommendations 12 Observation: Unclear Command Relationships 12 Recommendation: Broaden Airmen’s Understanding 14 Recommendation: Educat...

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...he air war affected airpower doctrine and theory. His study examines the evolution of this awesome manned strategic weapon in Vietnam to see how the design of the B-52s originally intended mission altered—if at all—the theories of airpower first put forward by Giulio Douhet and William “Billy” Mitchell. Dr. Head also analyzes how this same operational alteration affecte...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; Joseph Turner: Sun Setting over a Lake (1840) Copyright ... ... of the world would, I am certain, counteract Captain Baskelett’s—are they designs? At any rate, you can if you like help Nevil with the colonel. I am... ...ed a leading article of a banner-like bravery, and the unrolling of it was designed to stir emotions. Beauchamp was the theme. Nevil had it under his ... ...nt. Do speak to him on that subject.’ Cecilia must have been innocent of a design to awaken the fire-flash in Nevil’s eyes. She had no design, but hos... ...ther, though he would fain have shod them, being needy; but it was not the design of Provi- dence that they should so come as he in his blindness woul... ... punish- ment it would be were you to remain so short a period.’ Having no designs, he was neither dupe nor sceptic; but he felt oddly entangled, and ... ...ing to do is to keep M. d’Henriel away from him. I suspect M. d’Orbec of a design to make them clash: and you, my dear, will explain why, to flatter m... ...es should have suggested the invitation of Nevil Beauchamp with the secret design of winning home her hus- band to protect her. This, for one reason, ... ...somely have defended himself, from the charge that he entertained ultimate designs in regard to the really abominable scrawl, which was like a child’s...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ... course, in a serious narrative; which it really seems these moderns think designed for a frequent arrest of the actors in the story and a searching o... ...ied a person of no family. ‘Really, really, that young man’s freaks appear designed for the express purpose of heightening our amazement!’ she ex- cla... ... She’s offered Esslemont to live in? I believe her instinct’s right—he has designs on the child. A little more and we shall have a mad dog in the fell... ...redith has been contradicted, and is not produced on authority. The end in design is to win the ear by making a fuss, and roll event upon event for th... ...n, incurable in her lunacy, suspects the father of the infant as guilty of designs done to death in romances; and so she man- ages to set going solemn... ...he should have more understanding than to suspect the husband as guilty of designs done to death in romances. However, she is not a craven who complim... ...s it was deemed by Gower’s observation of his eyes, a scientific fist. The design to black them finely was attributable to the dyeing accuracy of the ... ... in the form of trophy, and the knowledge that this woman bearing his name designed to be out at the heels of a foreign army or tag-rag of uniformed r...

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...o a dark underworld of a street. Untamed mosses and vines swallowed up the dilapidated, vacant houses, which bore signs of antiquated engineering and design. They were slowly sinking into the soft ground, as Nature took them back from Man....

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...echnological development programs. We see Murphy’s Law (anything that can go wrong, will go wrong) in operation. No matter how carefully the military designs, plans, and programs the process of technological development, inevitably, equipment, organizations, and people will challenge the desired expectations. The book focuses on the introduction of jet propulsion into the ...

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... much time. Here, we have enormous variation-most of our big, modem electronic cryptosystems are designed to resist a full scale "maximum effort" anal... ...ligence value. At the other end of the spectrum we may be willing to supply a mere slip of paper designed only to provide security to a tactical commu... ...ut during the rest of the week. I happened to start out in this business as a cryptanalyst and a designer of specialized man­ ual systems not long aft... ...Army in Europe, and vice versa. Of course some systems, parti­ cularly some machine systems, are designed specifically for intercommunication between ... ...KY-S's and they and the Marines became the principal users, even though it was zea1ly originally designed for aircraft. There's another point about th... ...le use in comparison with the big,systems we have talked about. The first of these is the KG-24. designed for the encryption ofTV si,gnals­ civision w... ...irst letter of what ever name they assip. The letters generally correspond to the equipment-type designator in the TSEC scheme-with "W" standing for T... ...is going to come to fruition, TSEC nomenclature is assiped. and suffixes are added. to the basic designators to indicate the stage reached in each mod... ... designators to indicate the stage reached in each model: these can involve esperimental models (designated X), development models (desipted D), test ...

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...l systems engineering philosophies instilled in me by my father. I have successfully exploited IT capabilities to perform engine cold-start analyses, design coal crushers, train missile crews, simulate radar satellite constellations, track satellite parts and construction practices, and create intelligence fusion software. But with each success made possible through IT cam...

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.... . . . . . . . . .113 7 OPERATIONAL STRATEGY . . . . . . . . . . . .115 Orchestrating Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Operational Strategy: Design Choices . . . .122 The Essence of Operational Strategy: Orchestrating Theater Campaigns . . . . . . 125 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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...t of the Pennsylvania State University’s Elec tronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvania State University The... ...” “Are you sure of it?” “Yes, Marse Tom.” “You feel sure she has no ulterior designs?” “I don’t know what that is, Marse Tom, but I know she hasn’t.” ...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...ternational Spy. He was seeing secret things. He had, in fact, crossed the designs of no less a power than the German Empire, he had blundered into th... ...mly adventurous minds that planned it came to succeeding in their colossal design. V on Sternberg was the Moltke of this War in the Air, but it was th... ...for some such enterprise. 2 2 2 2 2 Of all these world-forces and gigantic designs Bert Smallways knew nothing until he found himself in the very focu... ...truct, given the air-chamber material, the engines, the gas plant, and the design, it was reallt not more complicated and far easier than an ordinary ... ...nts with its own devices were limited by the needs of secrecy. None of the designers of airships and aeroplanes had known clearly what their invention... ...uerilla warfare, rapidly and cheaply made, easily used, easily hidden. The design of them was hastily copied and printed in Pinkerville and scattered ... ...ruggles the world darkens—scarcely heeded by history. It is not within the design of this book to tell what further story, to tell how the War in the ...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe...

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