Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine - Basic Thinking in the USAF 1907-1960 (Volume 1)

CONTENTS
	DISCLAIMER
	FOREWORD
	ABOUT THE AUTHOR
	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Chapter 1: EMERGING PATTERNS OF AIR FORCE THOUGHT
	NOTES
Chapter 2: EARLY DAYS THROUGH WORLD WAR I 1907-26
	The Beginning of Army Aviation
		European Adversaries Speed Aviation Development
		US Military Preparations
	The American Air Service in World War I
		Thoughts on Strategic Bombing
		America's Wartime Aviation Accomplishments
	The Mitchell Era: From Air Service to Air Corps
		Mitchell's Early Thinking on Air Power
		Aviation Is Integrated into Army and Navy
		General Patrick and the Air Service
		Establishment of the Army Air Corps
	The Mitchell Era Reexamined
	NOTES
Chapter 3: GROWTH OF THE AIR FORCE IDEA 1926-41
	The Air Corps Wins a Foothold
	Beginnings of the GHQ Air Force
		Toward a Long-Range Bombardment Mission
		Baker Board Influences Air Organization
		Organization of the General Headquarters Air Force
	Development of Doctrine in the Air Corps and GHQ Air Force
		Beliefs in Bomber Invincibility
		Thoughts on Air Support Aviation
		War Department General Staff Reorients Air Programs
		Efforts to Describe Air Doctrine
		Aviation in Support of the Monroe Doctrine
	Mobilization for Western Hemisphere Defense
		An Air Power Mission for the Air Corps
		Battle Experience from Europe
	Mobilizing the Army Air Forces for War
		Organization of the Army Air Forces
		Early AAFOrganization for Basic Thinking
		AWPD-1: Air Planning for War
	NOTES
Chapter 4: AIRFORCE THINKING AND WORLD WAR II
	Planning and Analysis in the Army Air Forces
		Many Procedures for Developing Air Doctrine
		New Conceptions ofTactical Air Power
		Wartime Work of the AAF Board
		Official Evaluations of Air Operations
		Wartime Air Doctrine Development Phases Down
	Examination of the Strategic Air War
		Thoughts on Air Organization for War
		Battling for Air Superiority
		Effect of Flak and Fighters
		Problems of Strategic Air Targets
		Early Strategic Bombing in the Pacific-Far East
		Strategic Air against Japan
		Atomic Attack at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
	Thoughts on Air Power and Air Force
		Lessons on Air Superiority
		Development of Tactical Air Power
		Importance of Airlift
		General Arnold's Final Word
	Notes
Chapter 5: THE AIR FORCE IN NATIONAL DEFENSE: ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGY, 1944-49
	Armed Service Unification and the Air Force
		Key West Agreements on Roles and Missions
		Unified and Specified Commands
	Building the Air Force's Internal Structure
		Postwar Air Organization Plans
		Recognition of Research and Development
		General Spaatz's Air Force Reorganization
		Continuing Thinking about Research and Development
		Organization of USAF Headquarters
	The Air Force in the Developing Cold War Strategy
		Problems of Aircraft Procurement
		First Policies on Missiles and Rockets
		Emerging Soviet Threats
		The Finletter Commission
		Air Power and the Berlin Airlift
	Strategic Bombing and the B-36 Controversy
		Fiscal Limits Affected the Military
		A Collective Defense and Air Power Strategy
		Investigations of the B-36 and Defense Unification
	Notes
Chapter 6: RESPONSES TO SOVIET NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND LIMITED WAR, 1949-53
	Evolving Patterns of Defense Organization
		Toward the Air Research and Development Command
		Military Support for Foreign Policy
	Soviet Nuclear Weapons and Technological Challenge
		Developments in Nuclear Weapons
		Thoughts on Nuclear Air Power
		NSC-68: Call for US Rearmament
	Strategic Implications of Limited War in Korea
		Bases of American Action in Korea
		Tactical Air Operations
		General Vandenberg on Air Power
		Air Power Stalemates the Communists
	Rebuilding the Worldwide Air Force
		Establishment of the Air Force Council
		Army-Air Force Accommodations on Air-Ground Doctrine
		Air Force Organization Act of 1951
		Air Buildup: 95-Wing Program
		Added Requirements for Air Power
		Air Objectives Expand to 143 Wings
		Tactical Air and Air Defense Studies
		Secretary Finletter's Assessments
	Global Air Power and the Korean Armistice
		Air Power and Armistice Negotiations
		Air Pressure as a Strategy
		Evaluations of Air Power's Effects in Korea
	Notes
Chapter 7: THE AIR FORCE WRITES ITS DOCTRINE 1947-55
	Early Efforts to Identify Air Force Doctrine
	Air Force Activities in the Field of Joint Doctrine
	The Air University as a Doctrinal Center
		Successful Preparation of Air Doctrine Manuals
		Continuing Air Doctrinal Activity
	Failing Efforts to Produce Interservice Doc
		Interservice Disagreements on Doctrine
	Notes
Chapter 8: STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW LOOK 1953-57
	Statements of Defense Policy:The New Look and Massive Retaliation
		Department of Defense Reorganization
		New Look Military Force Objectives
		Massive Retaliation as a Strategy
		Air Force Views on Massive Retaliation
	Air Force Thinking on Counterforce and Air Power
		Efforts to Define Air Power
	Air  Force Positions on Nuclear Stalemate and Limited War
		Air Thinking on Nuclear Stalemate
		Limited Wars Are a Problem
		Emergence of Flexible Response as a Strategy
		A 'New" New Look Strategy
		Nuclear Weapons and Limited Wars
		Increased Acceptance of Flexible Response
	Notes
Chapter 9: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY AND THE AIR FORCE 1945-60
	Guided Missiles : The Research and Development Phase
		Starts and Stops in Early Missile Programs
		Technological Breakthrough in Ballistic Missiles
		Soviet Threats Speed Missile Development
		Decisions for Production and Deployment
		Interservice Disputes about Antimissile Defense
	Integrating Missiles into the Air Force
		Integrating Missiles into the Strategic Air Command
		Missiles for Air Defense and Air-Ground Support
		Aircraft and Missile Projection in Tactical Air Command
		Development in Continental Air Defense
	Origins of Aerospace Doctrine in the Air Force
		Visualizations of Satellites and Space Stations
		A Concept of Space Superiority
	Notes
Chapter 10: IMPACT OF MISSILES AND SPACE ON NATIONAL STRATEGY
	The Defense Reorganization Act of 1958
		Drives for Closer Defense Unification
		Air Force Demands for a Single Service
		New Authority for United Commands
	Organization of Military and National Space Programs
		Establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
	Strategic Dialogue: Minimum Deterrenceor Counterforce
		Meeting Crises in Lebanon and the Taiwan Straits
		Minimum Deterrence or Counterforce?
	Notes
INDEX