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.................................................................... 15The First Major Split............................................................. ...................................................................... 16The Second Major Split ............................................................ ...r foot curving before it hits the football and sends it out in a straightline. A baseball bat curves before it hits the baseball. The ball first goes ... ...ne Age humans. It was alsocolonized from the center out just like Asia was later geographically: this does not make sense. Europeis closer to Africa t... ...than the follow rules and try to win.Take professional football and professional baseball: two of the most specialized sports in the world.Where one f... ...en they would have to kiss theirhigh-paying careers goodbye. The national hockey league jealously guarded its reputation as theworld’s best hockey lea... ... robber barons and Junkers did not belong to the corrupt English-Jewish-American league of international banking criminals. They threatened to take ov... ...acred,exclusive, religion or culture, or race… except in lip service.Look at the geographical joke of the Arab Emirates: their boundaries… convenientl... ...ian empire so intelligently and so well: that all the Balkan squabblesand bitter rivalries would have been moderated and resolved and the worstdictato...

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... years that spanned the first Persian Gulf War of 1991 andthe three weeks of major combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003were a triumphal time for ... ...ocates, from Giulio Douhet andBilly Mitchell onward, have done their cause a major disservice bymisguidedly espousing over many decades. Although the ... ... itself to conceptualization that was emi-nently challengeable on technical, geographical, political, and logicalgrounds; not that logic could cope at... ...lkof going to war as a whole. Although warfare has become more complexas its geographical environments have increased from two (land andthe surface of... ...ra-tegic history can deliver outlier, exceptional happenings. There havebeen rivalries and wars wherein the narrative was, at most, character-ized by ... ...d demanded by the apparently impressive,certainly novel, experiment with the League of Nations. Whereas from 1914 to 1918 airpower was force-fed by a... ..., “Strength for Battle”; and Overy, Battle of Britain,145–48. In common with baseball, air warfare invites an extreme granularity ofdata and a huge sc... ...at the unarguable strategic triumph of airpowerinevitably fuels antagonistic rivalries with land power and seapower, despite the common sense as well ... ...s a conse-quence of external pressure for which Washington could claim major-league credit.22 On the other hand, the America that had just wonthe Cold...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 A Blue Major in the Black World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...rean War and the Indochina wars of1950–79. The Korean War marked the first major use of Air Force special operations capabilities dur-ing the cold war... ...A) bureau-drove allied troops southward in retreat through a cratic rivalries, FEC/LG would see much of itsfreezing hell of -30 degrees Fahrenh... ...from the Plexiglas nose of a B Flight B-26 shows Korea’s rugged terrain, a geographical realitythat made parachute infiltration the only viable long-r... ...nawa On 8 September 1953, nine months before the changed not only its geographical base but trans-fall of Dien Bien Phu and less than three month... ...mplish either goal was soon apparent. suited for an opponent in its own league. To Stung by the manner in which Hanoi dismissed incredulous int... ...d boxers being handedstraight to the Air Force’s aircraft boneyard in baseball bats to decide the match once and for all.Tucson, Arizona. Five we... ...ary aerial gunship support in officially desig-starting lineup in the “big leagues.” nated “denied areas.” For insertions, speed was Maj “Smo...

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... “Hap” Arnold’s World War II Diaries Edited by MAJOR GENERAL JOHN W. HUSTON USAF Retired Volume... ... “Hap”Arnold’s reputation as the father of today’s United States AirForce. Major General John W. Huston, himself an Army AirForces combat veteran of t... ...orps. The Speakerof the US House of Representatives articulated to his col-leagues and the Congressional Record an assessment that wasor would be on m... ...ol, still from March Field, wouldextend to more units spread over a larger geographical area.Hap had barely settled into his new responsibilities when... ...otbe an overly pleasant one for the general. The move would be more than a geographical change for thefamily. While in California, daughter Lois had a... ...reveals a man of simple anddirect speech and prose. A famous novelist, Ivy league-educated,who wrote a good many speeches as a reserve officer forArno... ...tely before Arnold’sdeparture, leave little doubt that traditional service rivalries aswell as personal antagonisms entered into the discussions. Arno... ...s was the San Francisco waterfront restaurant named for theNew York Yankee baseball player. 208. Although his assignment at the time is not known, Tha...

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...requirements, space architectures,and ground support infrastructure are more major issues.Graduate students at the School of Advanced AirpowerStudies ... .... Beyond these obvious limitations, Gallegos provides auseful summary of the major space lessons of the Gulf War.His articulation of the cold war spac... ...s the use of forces that can project power from theUnited States to whatever geographical destination is requiredby circumstance. The United States si... ...e -ment can have. James A. Winnefeld, Preston Niblack, and Dana J. Johnson,A League of Airmen: US Airpower in the Gulf War (Santa Monica, Calif.:RAND,... ...December 1992.Winnefeld, James A., Preston Niblack, and Dana J. Johnson. A League of Airmen: US Airpower in the Gulf War. Santa Monica, Calif.: RA... ...ed, these technologies could become the basis for logi-cally integrated, yet geographically distributed, weaponsystems whose elements perform reconnai... ... HEAVENThus, Army Air Forces involvement, along with the intenseinterservice rivalries, encouraged this little-understood do-main to become a fertile ... ...mpound of pure mercury and mercury antimony oxide. Itcould be used to make a baseball-sized neutron bomb capable of killingeveryone within 600 meters ...