Theater Air Reconnaissance Operations
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Theater Air Reconnaissance Operations
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Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
language : en
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Release Date : 1955
Theater Air Reconnaissance Operations written by United States. Department of the Air Force and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Air warfare categories.
Theater Air Reconnaissance Operations
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Author : USA Department of the Air Force
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
Theater Air Reconnaissance Operations written by USA Department of the Air Force and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with categories.
Air Docutrine Sic
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language : en
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Release Date : 1955
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Vantage For Advantage
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Author : Jason R. Guyette
language : en
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Release Date : 2019
Vantage For Advantage written by Jason R. Guyette and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Aerial reconnaissance categories.
"In the early years of military aviation, reconnaissance was quickly and universally identified as an invaluable role for airmen. Military commanders and political leaders alike have long been interested in following Sun Tzu's advice to prevail by knowing the enemy and knowing oneself. Yet in recent years, many voices have questioned the need for deliberate and specialized aerial reconnaissance as American strategy returns its focus to great powers and readiness for high-intensity conflict. Some believe the availability of other persistent means of gathering information, or the option to instrument lethal forces with sensors, signal the obsolescence of reconnaissance as an air mission. As the Air Force evaluates these claims and searches for a perfect approach to intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, it may be helpful to turn to history. This paper reviews the history of aerial reconnaissance in the European Theater of World War II, an unequivocally high-intensity fight against peer forces of a great power. The project aims to explain why the Anglo-American Allies developed evolved their use of air reconnaissance in such a markedly different way than did the Germans. The Allies relied on air reconnaissance as a strategic guide to operations, while the Germans largely used it as a tactical force multiplier. The study draws upon a mixture of secondary sources and firsthand accounts of combat, reconnaissance, and intelligence practices of the three great air powers in the west - the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. The pre-World War II conceptions of warfare and reconnaissance of each power are surveyed, along with their interwar dispositions toward reconnaissance and military intelligence. Finally, the paper covers select strategic developments during the war that drove each power toward their respective wartime uses of air reconnaissance. Ultimately, organizational factors in each military, their preferred warfighting approaches, and limitations presented by the type of war facing each belligerent combine to explain their differing treatments of reconnaissance."--Abstract.
Air Operations In Conjunction With Amphibious Operations
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Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
Air Operations In Conjunction With Amphibious Operations written by United States. Department of the Air Force and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Air warfare categories.
Air Force Manual
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Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
language : en
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Release Date : 1955
Air Force Manual written by United States. Department of the Air Force and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with categories.
Air Force In Theaters Of Operations Organizations And Functions
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Author : United States. Army Air Forces War Department
language : en
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Release Date : 1943
Air Force In Theaters Of Operations Organizations And Functions written by United States. Army Air Forces War Department and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with categories.
Theater Airlift Operations
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Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
language : en
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Release Date : 1954
Theater Airlift Operations written by United States. Department of the Air Force and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with categories.
Seeing The Enemy Army Air Force Aerial Reconnaissance Support To U S Army Operations In The Mediterranean In World War Ii
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Author : David W. Dengler
language : en
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Release Date : 2009
Seeing The Enemy Army Air Force Aerial Reconnaissance Support To U S Army Operations In The Mediterranean In World War Ii written by David W. Dengler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
The Army Air Force entered World War II poorly equipped and underprepared to support ground commanders with photo and visual reconnaissance. While doctrine fared better, it lacked the depth needed to employ reconnaissance effectively from the outset. In the Mediterranean theater, one can trace reconnaissance employment in support of ground forces. Operations in North Africa frequently failed due to decentralized control and inadequate aircraft. Photo reconnaissance improved markedly for the invasion of Sicily, but lost relevancy after the invasion when ground forces often outpaced photo coverage. Visual reconnaissance supplemented this coverage during mobile operations, but lacked sufficient detail for wide area coverage. This same situation persisted in Italy when aerial reconnaissance supported Fifth Army; however, Fifth Army achieved a greater degree of success by effectively securing tactical control over photo and visual reconnaissance assets supporting its operations. Combined with liaison officers at all echelons, this unique situation proved quite effective for all levels during attacks against fixed defenses, but less effective at the division and below during mobile operations due to time delays. The experience gained in this theater helps explain the Army's current focus on obtaining unmanned aerial vehicles to minimize the administrative layers and improve intelligence timeliness.
Piercing The Fog
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Author : U. S. Military
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-05-10
Piercing The Fog written by U. S. Military and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-10 with categories.
This Air Force publication records tells the intriguing story of how airmen built intelligence organizations to collect and process information about the enemy and to produce and disseminate intelligence to decisionmakers and warfighters in the bloody, horrific crucible of war. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Germany and Italy joined Japan four days later in declaring war against the United States, intelligence essential for the Army Air Forces to conduct effective warfare in the European and Pacific theaters did not exist. Because the problems confronting and confounding air intelligence officers, planners, and operators fifty years ago still resonate, Piercing the Fog is particularly valuable for intelligence officers, planners, and operators today and for anyone concerned with acquiring and exploiting intelligence for successful air warfare. More than organizational history, this book reveals the indispensable and necessarily secret role intelligence plays in effectively waging war. It examines how World War II was a watershed period for Air Force Intelligence and for the acquisition and use of signals intelligence, photo reconnaissance intelligence, human resources intelligence, and scientific and technical intelligence. Piercing the Fog discusses the development of new sources and methods of intelligence collection; requirements for intelligence at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of warfare; intelligence to support missions for air superiority, interdiction, strategic bombardment, and air defense; the sharing of intelligence in a coalition and joint service environment; the acquisition of intelligence to assess bomb damage on a target-by-target basis and to measure progress in achieving campaign and war objectives; and the ability of military leaders to understand the intentions and capabilities of the enemy and to appreciate the pressures on intelligence officers to sometimes tell commanders what they think the commanders want to hear instead of what the intelligence discloses. The complex problems associated with intelligence to support strategic bombardment in the 1940s will strike some readers as uncannily prescient to global Air Force operations in the 1990s. A half century ago, accurate, timely intelligence contributed significantly to victory and hastened the end of World War II. Such a legacy is worth reading and thinking about by all those responsible for building, maintaining, and employing air power. How well intelligence is integrated with air operations is even more important today than it was in the past. It will continue to prove as critical in the next century as it has been in this one. Chapter 1 - Early Intelligence Organization in the Army Air Corps * Chapter 2 - The Tools of Air Intelligence: ULTRA, MAGIC, Photographic Assessment, and the Y-Service * Chapter 3 - Building an Air Intelligence Organization and the European Theater * Chapter 4 - The European Theater of Operations, 1943-1945 * Chapter 5 - The Pacific and Far East, 1942-1945 * Chapter 6 - Taking the Offensive: From China-Burma-India to the B-29 Campaign * Chapter 7 - Planning the Defeat of Japan: The A-2 in Washington, 1943-1945 * Chapter 8 - Retrospection