Military Logistics and Strategic Performance, Kane Thomas M.
Автор: Syvanne Ilkka Название: Britain in the Age of Arthur: A Military History ISBN: 1473895200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473895201 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book reassesses the earliest evidence afresh from the perspective of a military historian.
Описание: America`s atomic superiority in the early postwar years was more fiction than fact. From 1945 until 1950, the US atomic arsenal was poorly coordinated, equipped and funded. This lack of preparedness serves as a case study in the tenuous nature of American civilian-military relationships.
Описание: In 1954 the U.S. Air Force launched an ambitious program known as WS-117L to develop the world’s first reconnaissance satellite. The goal was to take photographic images from space and relay them back to Earth via radio. Because of technical issues and bureaucratic resistance, however, WS-117L was seriously behind schedule by the time Sputnik orbited Earth in 1957 and was eventually cancelled. The air force began concentrating instead on new programs that eventually launched the first successful U.S. spy satellites.
Eyeing the Red Storm examines the birth of space-based reconnaissance not from the perspective of CORONA (the first photo reconnaissance satellite to fly) but rather from that of the WS-117L. Robert M. Dienesch’s revised assessment places WS-117L within the larger context of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, focusing on the dynamic between military and civilian leadership. Dienesch demonstrates how WS-117L promised Eisenhower not merely military intelligence but also the capacity to manage national security against the Soviet threat. As a fiscal conservative, Eisenhower believed a strong economy was the key to surviving the Cold War and saw satellite reconnaissance as a means to understand the Soviet military challenge more clearly and thus keep American defense spending under control.
Although WS-117L never flew, it provided the foundation for all subsequent satellites, breaking theoretical barriers and helping to overcome major technical hurdles, which ensured the success of America’s first working reconnaissance satellites and their photographic missions during the Cold War.
Chap1: Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography.- Chap2: Australian Contributions to the History of Military Geography.- Chap3: A Country Girt by Sea.- Chap4: Reflections on Development and Application of SMG2.0.- Chap5: Climate Change as a Hyperthreat.- Chap6: Religion and Australia's Near Region.- Chap7: Geographies of Irregular Warfare.- Chap8: Strategic Military Geographies of the South China Sea.- Chap9: Australia's Most Southern Shores.- Chap10: The Evolution of Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT).- Chap11: Characterising the Environmental Values of the National Defence Estate, with Emphasis on Native Vegetation.- Chap12: Australia's First and Most Important War.- Chap13: The Climate-Security Teleconnections of El Niсo Southern Oscillation.- Chap14: From Skin to Strategy.- Chap15: Sustainably Managing the Defence Estate.
Описание: Traditional theological perspectives on the human person are being challenged by contemporary cultural, political and scientific developments. Bringing together Roman Catholic theologians from different sub-disciplines, this collection of essays engages with and responds to the resulting tensions in theological anthropology, with a special focus on the themes of nature, self and relationality.
Автор: Lardas Mark Название: Japan 1944-45: Lemay`s B-29 Strategic Bombing Campaign ISBN: 1472832469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472832467 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2523.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The air campaign that incinerated Japan's cities was the first and only time that independent air power has won a war. As the United States pushed Imperial Japan back towards Tokyo Bay, the US Army Air Force deployed the first of a new bomber to the theater. The B-29 Superfortress was complex, troubled, and hugely advanced.
It was the most expensive weapons system of the war, and formidably capable. But at the time, no strategic bombing campaign had ever brought about a nation's surrender. Not only that, but Japan was half a world away, and the US had no airfields even within the extraordinary range of the B-29.
This analysis explains why the B-29s struggled at first, and how General LeMay devised radical and devastating tactics that began to systematically incinerate Japanese cities and industries and eliminate its maritime trade with aerial mining. It explains how and why this campaign was so uniquely successful, and how gaps in Japan's defences contributed to the B-29s' success.
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