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From the late 1960s through the mid-1980s, a small band of military activists waged war against corruption in the Pentagon, challenging a system they believed squandered the public's money and trust. The book examines the movement and its proponents and describes how the system responded to the criticisms and efforts to change accepted practices and entrenched ways of thinking.
The author, an air force colonel and part of the movement, worked in...
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Publisher
Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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The author provides a critical audit of the great RMA debate and of some actual RMA behavior and warns against a transformation that is highly potent only in a narrow range of strategic cases. He warns that the military effectiveness of a process of revolutionary change in a "way of war" can only be judged by the test of battle, and possibly not even then, if the terms of combat are very heavily weighted in favor of the United States. On balance,...
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[2002]
Language
English
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This book represents some of the thinking by students at the U.S. Army War College, considering the nature and direction of transformation. They consider how the transformed joint services of the United States should employ force in the 21st century. The services are exploring concepts such as Effects Based Operations and Rapid Decisive Operations to move swiftly and strike vigorously to secure victory in the coming decades. At the same time the nation...
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Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
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The Defense Secretary's Commission on Base Realignment and Closure was chartered on May 3, 1988 to recommend military installations within the United States, its commonwealths, territories, and possessions for realignment and closure. The Congress and the President subsequently endorsed this approach through legislation that removed some of the previous impediments to successful base-closure actions. This Commission's recommendations for closure and...
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Wright flyer paper volume no. 4
Publisher
Air Command and Staff College, Air University
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Author
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Defense horizons volume no. 46
Publisher
Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Series
Defense horizons volume no. 60
Publisher
Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English