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What were Germany's three critical mistakes in its use of airpower, as determined by Gen Spaatz? ✔✔•Inadequate armament on the bombers;
•No capability for precision bombing;
•Use of the fighters in close support of the bombers instead of in general support
Define the term "strategic bombing" ✔✔Strategic bombing may be defined as being an independent air campaign, intended to be decisive, and directed against the essential war-making capacity of the enemy
Name the three principles of combat that strategic bombing takes advantage of ✔✔• The principle of mass
- The principle of objective
- The principle of economy of force
What are five lessons that the United States learned from the use of strategic air power in World War II? ✔✔•The United States learned that the time given for building up weapons and planes and manpower were essential for the success in the war.
•That the air power in the war had to develop its own strategy: fighting in 3D. In particular the principle of mass.
•One must control the air. It is absolutely vital.
•Take advantage of the enemy's mistakes.
•Strategic Air Power could not have won the war alone. It needed ground troops
What are the two questions of airpower theory that the Air Corps Tactical School sought to answer? ✔✔•What are the vital elements of an enemy nation's power?
•How can airpower sufficiently endanger them to change an opponent's behavior?
What was the operational context in which the ACTS theorists developed their airpower theories? ✔✔The ACTS theorists wrote to create a central role and mission for the fledgling Air Corps. After WWI the Air Service was a mess and it needed a theory to make it special and note just a tool of the ground pounders. Thus ACTS theorists posited a decisive strategic role for the precision bomber to combat this problem.
What was the operational context in which Col John Warden developed his airpower theories? ✔✔John Warden also wrote to fill a void in airpower theory and to counter a trend of increasing subordination to the Army. When war experience in Korea and Vietnam proved that bombing
used in reference to a particular military operation, it signifies the information available to a specific audience
Two benefits of operating in a rich cyberspace environment are ✔✔•The organization can be decentralized as much as is feasible within a military context.
•The organization can function as a coalition of semi-independent agents whose environment drives their operations
The four fundamental principles of cyberspace are: ✔✔• Information Is the Coin of the Realm in Cyberspace
- Cyberspace Shapes Authority
- Cyberspace Operates under Nontraditional Physics
- Cyberspace Brings the Front Line to the Front Door
What is airpower? ✔✔Airpower is the ability to project military power or influence through the control and exploitation of air, space, and cyberspace to achieve strategic, operational, or tactical objectives.
The key attributes of air power are: ✔✔Speed, range, flexibility, and versatility.
Airmindedness is: ✔✔Thinking beyond two dimensions, into the dimensions of the vertical and the dimension of time
What are some practical applications of airmindedness for Airmen? ✔✔•Control of the vertical dimension is generally a necessary precondition for control of the surface.
•Airpower is an inherently strategic force.
•Airpower can exploit the principles of mass and maneuver simultaneously to a far greater extent than surface forces.
•Airpower can apply force against many facets of enemy power
•Air Force forces are less culturally intrusive in many scenarios
•Airpower's inherent speed, range, and flexibility combine to make it one of the most versatile components of military power
•Airpower results from the effective integration of capabilities, people, weapons, bases, logistics, and all supporting infrastructure
•The choice of appropriate capabilities is a key aspect in the realization of airpower.
•Supporting bases with their people, systems, and facilities are essential to launch, recovery, and sustainment of Air Force forces
•Airpower's unique characteristics necessitate that it be centrally controlled by Airmen.
Describe the background and intent of President Eisenhower's "New Look" policy. ✔✔During the 1950s, Pres. Dwight Eisenhower believed that an American effort to maintain conventional parity with the Soviet Union would destroy the US economy and bankrupt the federal treasury.
Thus, It was a policy that put emphasis on the growth of advanced nuclear weapons and delivery platforms and led to development of a large fleet of nuclear bombers and, by the end of the Eisenhower administration, the nuclear triad.
What is the concept of "assured destruction?" ✔✔The concept of assured destruction purposefully left the United States vulnerable to a first strike, yet the nation maintained a credible second-strike capability
What were the author's reasons for keeping the nuclear triad in place? ✔✔America has enemies and we must be able to protect ourselves.
