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China's long-range bomber flights : drivers and implications
\"This report examines the key drivers behind China's strategic bomber flights throughout the Asia-Pacific region, assessing Chinese commentary on flights and leveraging a number of sources, including interviews in Taipei and Tokyo, to better understand and gauge regional reactions. The report recommends specific responses for consideration by the U.S. Air Force and U.S. policymakers, as well as allies and partners, offering an in-depth analysis of the key issues driving top Chinese leaders to move in the direction of conducting these overwater bomber flights. Since March 2015, the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has sent its strategic bomber on long-range overwater flights on at least 38 separate occasions to important areas throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Chinese leaders seek to achieve at least four key objectives with PLAAF bomber flights throughout the region: First, bombers enable Beijing to send a deterrence message or to signal resolve in the conventional military domain to defend its maritime territorial claims. Second, overwater flights significantly enhance realistic training for PLAAF operators. Third, successful bomber flights offer Chinese leaders the opportunity to play up their achievements for domestic consumption, highlighting progress toward the building of 'world-class' military forces. And fourth, the increased operational tempo of PLAAF bomber flights around Taiwan appear to be designed, at least in part, to ratchet up pressure against Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen, as she has refused to acknowledge the 1992 Consensus, also known as the One China Consensus, since taking office in May 2016\"--Rand website.
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Rhetoric and reality in air warfare
A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about \"strategic\" bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on--and gained validity from--widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These assumptions were derived from the social and political context of the day and were maintained largely through cognitive error and bias. Tami Davis Biddle explains how air theorists, and those influenced by them, came to believe that strategic bombing would be an especially effective coercive tool and how they responded when their assumptions were challenged.
Biddle analyzes how a particular interpretation of the World War I experience, together with airmen's organizational interests, shaped interwar debates about strategic bombing and preserved conceptions of its potentially revolutionary character. This flawed interpretation as well as a failure to anticipate implementation problems were revealed as World War II commenced. By then, the British and Americans had invested heavily in strategic bombing. They saw little choice but to try to solve the problems in real time and make long-range bombing as effective as possible.
Combining narrative with analysis, this book presents the first-ever comparative history of British and American strategic bombing from its origins through 1945. In examining the ideas and rhetoric on which strategic bombing depended, it offers critical insights into the validity and robustness of those ideas--not only as they applied to World War II but as they apply to contemporary warfare.
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Strategy in the Missile Age
Strategy in the Missile Age first reviews the development of modern military strategy to World War II, giving the reader a reference point for the radical rethinking that follows, as Dr. Brodie considers the problems of the Strategic Air Command, of civil defense, of limited war, of counterforce or pre-emptive strategies, of city-busting, of missile bases in Europe, and so on. The book, unlike so many on modern military affairs, does not present a program or defend a policy, nor is it a brief for any one of the armed services. It is a balanced analysis of the requirements of strength for the 1960's, including especially the military posture necessary to prevent war. A unique feature is the discussion of the problem of the cost of preparedness in relation to the requirements of the national economy, so often neglected by other military thinkers.
Originally published in 1959.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Crisis Stability and Long-Range Strike
To effectively manage an international crisis, the United States must balance its threats with restraint. It must posture forces in ways that deter aggression without implying that an attack is imminent, while limiting its own vulnerability to surprise attack. A RAND study sought to identify which long-range strike assets—strike fighters, bombers, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles—offer capabilities most conducive to stabilizing such crises.
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Fortress on the Deck
[...]the Navy, who considered the U.S. fleet the first line of defense of America, wanted the Army Air Corps limited to a coastal defense role within 100 miles of the U.S. coastline. Under these restrictions the Air Corps let a contract for a limited number of YBseventeen Flying Fortresses for further operational testing, allegedly in the guise of a defensive bomber able to intercept enemy fleets far out at sea, but in reality to be developed as an instrument of strategic bombing theory.4 Gen. Frank M. Andrews, commander of General Headquarters (GHQ) Air Force, was a strategic bombardment proponent. Upon discovering this asset in theater, Kenney had the 43rd BG reassembled, reconstituting them with B17Es and Fs from maintenance depots and stateside replacements.12 Familiar with the work Major Benn had performed for him in getting a heavy bomb squadron back on its feet when Kenney was commander of Fourth Air Force, he gave the 63rd BS to Major Benn.13 Training in the new low-level tactics soon made the 63rd \"the hottest new outfit in the whole air force\" according to Kenney.14 Shipping was the life blood of operations in the Pacific. Shipping maintained the Japanese offensive in New Guinea, and shipping buttressed the Allied defense of this area. [...]it was imperative that Kenney utilize the few bombers that he had with the most effective ship killing tactics.15 To that end, Maj. Benn and the crews of the 63rd BS began practicing low-level attacks with their B-17s.
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Fighter Escorts for Bombers
[...]the bombers became more vulnerable. [...]the other six fighter groups in the Fifteenth Air Force shot down many more enemy fighters than the 332nd Fighter Group. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), pp. 124125; War Department report of general officers led by Lt. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem Jr., \"Policy for Untilization of Negro Manpower in the Post-War Army,\" also called the \"Gillem Report,\" which criticized the 332nd Fighter Group for staying too close to the bombers it escorted, resulting in fewer enemy airplanes being shot down, but which also praised the group for protecting the bombers it was assigned to escort (call number 170.2111-1, IRIS number 00128007, at the Air Force Historical Research Agency; Von Hardesty, Black Wings: Courageous Stories of African Americans in Aviation and Space History (New York, NY: Narrative mission reports of the 332nd Fighter Group by date, compared with the narrative mission reports of the bombardment groups they escorted by date, compared with the missing air crew reports of bombers lost on each date, with reference to which of the aircraft was reported shot down by enemy aircraft; USAAF Statistical Digest for World War II, published by the War Department at the conclusion of World War II, copy of which is available at the Air Force Historical Research Agency. 22.
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