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Series
CSI report volume Number 13
Publisher
Pickle Partners Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rand
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Because future adversaries are likely to look for alternative means to challenging the U.S. Air Force (USAF) in the air to counter U.S. airpower, a recent RAND study for the USAF investigated those means. As part of that study, this historical effort sought to better understand past, present, and future ground threats to air bases. In the course of the research, it became clear that attacks on air bases were much more frequent and successful than...
Series
CMH pub volume 40-6-1
Publisher
Center of Military History, U.S. Army
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Conventional wisdom holds that the South's defeat was inevitable. Yet military historian Alexander's new look at the Civil War documents how a Confederate victory could have come about--and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war's key battles, he shows why there is nothing inevitable about military victory, even for...