Land-Based Airpower in Third World Crises

CONTENTS......Page 8
DISCLAIMER......Page 3
FOREWORD......Page 12
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 14
PREFACE......Page 16
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 18
CHAPTER I POLITICAL OBJECTIVES AND MILITARY POWER: SOME RELATIONSHIPS......Page 20
CATEGORIES AND CHARACTERISTICSOF MILITARY FORCE......Page 21
LAND-BASED AIR POWER CAPABILITIES......Page 22
OPTIONS IN SELECTING LAND-BASED AIR POWER......Page 24
NOTES......Page 28
CHAPTER 2 THE THIRD WORLD AND THE UNITED STATES:  PROBLEMS, ASSUMPTIONS, AND OUTLOOKS......Page 30
PROBLEMS AND ASSUMPTIONS......Page 31
BLIND ALLEYS......Page 32
INTERDEPENDENCE......Page 35
DIFFUSING ADVANCED ARMS TOLESS-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LDCs)......Page 39
UTILITY OF MILITARY POWER......Page 46
NOTES......Page 50
SCENARIO......Page 54
GENESIS OF CRISIS......Page 56
LAND-BASED AIR POWER IN THE REGION......Page 58
FORMULATING OPTIONS......Page 60
SELECTING THE BEST OPTION......Page 62
Landings at Koh Tang......Page 65
Retaking the Mayaguez......Page 68
Bombing the Mainland......Page 69
LAND-BASED AIRPOWER AND CRISIS RESOLUTION......Page 70
NOTES......Page 78
DEVELOPING OPTIONS......Page 84
DOCTRINE ANI) THE BAY OF PIGS PLAN......Page 85
STRATEGY MAKING......Page 86
IMPLEMENTATION......Page 90
D-1......Page 92
D-day......Page 93
D + 1......Page 98
D + 2......Page 100
NOTES......Page 104
GENESIS OF THE CRISIS......Page 108
THE ARABS ATTACK......Page 115
REVERSING THE TIDE ON THE GOLAN......Page 117
Soviet Concerns......Page 118
American Concerns......Page 119
Conditions for Cease-fire......Page 121
GROWING SUPERPOWER TENSIONS......Page 122
US AIR POWER......Page 124
THE CROSSING TO \"AFRICA\"......Page 127
KOSYGIN\'S EMERGENCY MISSION TO CAIRO......Page 128
CEASE-FIRE......Page 129
WORLD CRISIS......Page 132
NOTES......Page 136
THE CONGO CRISIS, 1960-63......Page 140
DRAGON ROUGE: THE STANLEYVILLE CRISIS, 1964......Page 144
SHABA 1, 1977......Page 149
SHABA II, 1978......Page 152
NOTES......Page 156
CHARACTERISTICS AND CAPABILITIES......Page 158
UTILITY AND LIMITATIONS......Page 162
STRATEGIC AND CONCEPTUAL IMPLICATIONS......Page 168
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY......Page 172
INDEX......Page 180