Creech Blue: Gen Bill Creech and the reformation of the tactical air forces, 1978-1984
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1. Verfasser: Slife, James C. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. Air University Press in collaboration with CADRE 2004
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Beschreibung:"October 2004."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-153)
An architect of victory? -- Making of Bill Creech -- Thinking about air warfare -- Tools of the trade -- Organizing to fight, building leaders -- To Desert Storm and beyond
Colonel Slife chronicles the influence of the late Gen Wilbur L. "Bill" Creech, a leader, visionary, warrior, and mentor in the areas of equipment and tactics, training, organization, and leader development. His study serves both to explain the context of a turbulent time in our Air Force's history and to reveal where tomorrow's airmen may find answers to some of the difficult challenges facing them today. Colonel Slife, who addresses such controversial topics as the development of the Army's AirLand Battle doctrine and what it meant to airmen, is among the first to describe what historians will surely see in years to come as the revolutionary developments of the late 1970s/early 1980s and General Creech's central role. Creech Blue enlightens the Air Force on its strongly held convictions during that period and challenges the idea that by 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Air Force had forgotten how to wage a "strategic" air campaign and was dangerously close to plunging into a costly and lengthy war of attrition had it not been for the vision of a small cadre of thinkers on the Air Staff. In exploring the doctrine and language of the decade leading up to Operation Desert Storm, Colonel Slife reveals that the Air Force was not as shortsighted as many people have argued
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 153 p.)
ISBN:9781429455473
1429455470