Author: Kenneth W. Alle
Publisher: RAND Corporatio
Keywords: air, force, project, century, enters, china’s
Number of Pages: 249
Published: 1995-06-25
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0833016482
ISBN-13: 9780833016485

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) does not constitute a credible offensive threat against the United States or its Asian allies today, and this situation will not change dramatically over the coming decade. If anything, its overall capabilities relative to most of its potential rivals will diminish over the next ten years. These circumstances are a product of constrained strategic thinking in China about the role of airpower, the lack of funds needed for a comprehensive modernization program, logistics and maintenance problems, the limited training available to its p

Author: Brian Nichiporuk
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: force, future, era, implications, planning, army, alternative, futures
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2005-06-25
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0833037447
ISBN-13: 9780833037442

Creates six alernative future worlds for the 2025 tiemframe and draws out the implications of those worlds for U.S. Army force size, structure, and design.

Author: Michael Schiefer
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: force, synchronization, strategies, interactions, management, enlisted, air, system
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2007-09-25
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0833040138
ISBN-13: 9780833040138

A fundamental goal of the Air Force personnel system is to ensure that the manpower inventory, by Air Force specialty code and grade, matches requirements. However, there are structural obstacles that impede achieving this goal. To remove one of those obstacles, the authors propose a methodology that would marginally modify grade authorizations within skill levels to make it possible to better achieve manpower targets.

Author: Glenn Kent
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: air, force, report, project, states, modernization, united, framework
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2003-09-25
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0833034278
ISBN-13: 9780833034274

The report lays out a framework for modernizing that the Air Force can use to develop new operational concepts in the context of joint-service requirements, to organize analyses for assessing capabilities, and to effectively advocate Air Force programs to "deciders’ in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Congress. The work builds on earlier work on a strategies-to-tasks framework, concept development, and up-front planning.

Author: United States Air Force
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: handbook, survival, force, air
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2008-04-17
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1602392455
ISBN-13: 9781602392458

A comprehensive manual of proven wilderness survival tactics for every situation. Written for use in formal United States Air Force survival training courses, the U.S. Air Force Survival Handbook iis the bible for pilots who want to stay alive—no matter what. Assuming, as the Air Force does, that flight personnel may be faced at any time with a bailout or crash landing in hostile territory without supplies, the advice here is superlatively practical, but also surprisingly readable and interesting. Detailing specific survival threats at sea, in the tropics, in the desert, in Arctic con

Author: Zalmay Khalilzad
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: force, posture, project, air, report, strategy, states, asia, new, united
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-09-25
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 083302955X
ISBN-13: 9780833029553

The past 20 years have been a time of relative peace in Asia and, notwithstanding the 1997-1998 financial crisis, a period of robust economic growth as well. Currently, however, Asia is beset by a variety of problems that could well imperil the stability it has long enjoyed--including territorial disputes, nuclear rivalry, rising nationalist sentiments, and increased military capabilities. This report summarizes the manner in which the United States can best meet these challenges and thereby ensure continued peace and stability in the region. In the interests of this goal, the report outlines

Author: Benjamin S. Lambeth
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: force, air, series, allied, project, operation, operational, war, kosovo, strategic, nato, assessment
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2001-10-25
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0833030507
ISBN-13: 9780833030504

This book offers a thorough appraisal of Operation Allied Force, NATO1s 78-day air war to compel the president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, to end his campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo. The author sheds light both on the operation1s strengths and on its most salient weaknesses. He outlines the key highlights of the air war and examines the various factors that interacted to induce Milosevic to capitulate when he did. He then explores air power1s most critical accomplishments in Operation Allied Force as well as the problems that hindered the operation both in its planning and in i