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Winning the battle of the airfields : seventy years of RAND analysis on air base defense and attack / Alan Vick and Mark Ashby.
Van Pelt Library UG634.49 .V53 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vick, Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rand Corporation--History.
- Rand Corporation.
- Air bases, American--Security measures.
- Air bases, American.
- Air bases--Defense measures--United States.
- Air bases.
- Air bases--Defense measures.
- Security systems.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Seventy years of RAND analysis on air base defense and attack
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2021.
- Summary:
- From the dawn of the air power age to today, airfields have been recognized as essential military facilities, and combatants have gone to great lengths to destroy enemy aircraft on the ground (where they are most vulnerable) and to deny the use of airfields through attacks on runways, fuel storage, and other supporting assets. The RAND Corporation has worked on issues related to analyzing air base defense and attack (ABD/A) for 70 years-supporting the analysis of its U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Air Force (USAF) sponsors and sometimes leading the way. This report documents and highlights RAND's many contributions to the analysis of ABD/A over time and identifies enduring insights for improving the resiliency of U.S. air bases in the face of modern threats.
- Contents:
- CHAPTER 1. Introduction
- Background
- Purpose of This Report
- Research Approach
- Organization of This Report
- CHAPTER 2. A Statistical Overview of RAND Research on Air Base Attack and Defense, 1951-2020
- Publication Rate and Series Type
- Central Themes
- CHAPTER 3. Nuclear Threats to U.S. Air Force Bases in the United States and Europe, 1950-1959
- Strategic Environment
- Overview of RAND Research on Air Base Defense and Attack During This Period
- RAND Contributions
- CHAPTER 4. A Shift Toward Conventional and Offensive Operations, 1960-1969
- A Sampling of Reports
- CHAPTER 5. Conventional Warfare in Central Europe, 1970-1989
- CHAPTER 6. Era of Rear Area Sanctuary for the U.S. Air Force, 1990-2009
- Overview of RAND Research on Air Base Defense and Attack: 1990-2009
- CHAPTER 7. Anti-Access Threat to U.S. Bases Reinvigorates Analysis of Air Base Defense, 2010-2020
- RAND Contribution
- CHAPTER 8. Conclusions
- Key Findings
- Looking to the Future
- Appendix A. Statistics on Report Authors and Co-Author Networks
- Appendix B. First Authors by Decade
- Appendix C. Chronological Listing of Publicly Available RAND Reports on Air Base Attack or Defense.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF document (viewed February 22, 2021).
- "RAND Project AIR FORCE."
- "Prepared for the Department of the Air Force."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-134).
- Description based on electronic resource.
- ISBN:
- 1977406610
- 9781977406613
- OCLC:
- 1244508943
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