Strategic appraisal : United States air and space power in the 21st century /
Change--in international relations, in technology, and in society as a whole--has become the idiom of our age. One example of these changes has been an increasing recognition of the value of air and space assets for handling nearly every contingency from disaster relief to war and, consequently, inc...
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2002
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the price of success / Jeremy Shapiro
- Forces for What? Geopolitical Context and Air Force Capabilities / Zalmay Khalilzad, David Ochmanek, and Jeremy Shapiro
- The future of U.S. coercive airpower / Daniel L. Byman, Matthew C. Waxman, and Jeremy Shapiro
- Modernizing the combat forces: near-term options / Donald Stevens, John Gibson, and David Ochmanek
- Space challenges / Bob Preston and John Baker
- U.S. military opportunities: information-warfare concepts of operation / Brian Nichiporuk
- Nuclear weapons and U.S. national security strategy for a new century / Glenn Buchan
- Countering weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles / Richard F. Mesic
- Providing adequate access for expeditionary aerospace forces / David Shlapak
- A vision for an evolving agile combat support system / Robert Tripp, C. Robert Roll, Jr., Lionel Galway, Timothy Ramey, John Drew, Mayhar Amouzegar, and Clifford Grammich
- Strategic sourcing in the Air Force / Frank Camm
- Ready for war but not for peace: the apparent paradox of military preparedness / Carl Dahlman and David Thaler.
