... the upgrading of individual aircraft tactics and aircrew performance that eventually led to the improvement in kill ratios over the NVAF in 1972. The spread of instrumented air combat ranges, and their ability to aid in the development of operational as well as tactical skills, led to the start of the USAF's Red ... . The introduction of Red Flag was followed by Green Flag exercises stressing realistic real combat exercises, and Blue Flag which focused on air- ground operations and made more use of simulation. The US improvements realized in these exercises were spread through multi-nati...

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... Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the South African Air Force flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing up to 4,700 tons of daily necessities such as ... ...

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... scenes, characters, and actions all represent either a political message or some sort of stereotypical thinking of that time. The first scene is when Strategic Air Commander General Jack D. Ripper orders Plan R, an emergency war plan that allows a commander to order nuclear retaliation after a sneak attack, on the ... will signal the B-52 bombers. Once the bombers are on the way, General Ripper seals off all communication, including telephone calls from the Air Force and the President. This scene definitely shows a political message, and it is that the US was extremely nervous and worri...

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... . But the situation had worsened by many civilian killed and many Kosovo's villages and cities burned. Javier Solana directed NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General Wesley Clark to initiate air operations in Yugoslavia. The militarian operation of NATO in spring 1999 against Yugoslavia was called Operation Allied Force. NATO launched military operations because everything else failed and it was clear ... order to achieve NATO's objectives. It would have been possible at any time for Milosevic to bring the air operation to an end by withdrawing his forces from Kosovo. "Th...

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... also felt that no matter what, Japan would lose the war. Atomic Bomb, or no Atomic Bomb, Japan would soon be defeated. The Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces, Henry H. "Hap" Arnold said, "The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own ... air." (Page 334). Though Arnold felt the dropping of the bomb was unnecessary, he felt there were political implications in the decision and he did not feel it was the military's ... job to question it. Among some of the Air Force leaders, Major General...

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... unprovoked armed attack would start a disaster chain even leading most probably to World War III." When Dulles got back to Washington he specified that he meant sending in United States Air and Naval forces only, not troops. Almost immediately after getting word of the invasion, Acheson decided that the United States should put the matter before the United Nations. He then ... to repel the armed attack and regain international peace and security in the area. Earlier that day President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, had announced that he had ordered U.S. air and naval forces to g...

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... option was to warn Cuba to get the missiles out and if they don't abide, to bomb Cuba with an air attack destroying all the missiies7then following up with an invasion. The second choice was a sneek^attack to come in with an air attack and destroy all the mfssnes, then follow up with an invasion, and the third choice was to form ... not be safe, in that if all the missiles were not destroyed there may be a nuclear exchange between the two countries. JFK felt as if we were to pull a sneek air attack on Cube that it would look to the rest of the world that America was just a "big bully" p...

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... also felt that no matter what, Japan would lose the war. Atomic Bomb, or no Atomic Bomb, Japan would soon be defeated. The Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces, Henry H. "Hap" Arnold said, "The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own ... air." (Page 334). Though Arnold felt the dropping of the bomb was unnecessary, he felt there were political implications in the decision and he did not feel it was the military's ... job to question it. Among some of the Air Force leaders, Major General...

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... Castro would be removed from office by his own people and not by any United States personnel. What cost the success of the mission was that the U.S. neglected to provide air cover for the troops. Of the 2000 troops, 300 were killed and the rest were taken prisoner. Evidently, Kennedy did not want another Bay of Pigs, so he elected to ... and disarm the opponent at the same time. If the U.S.S.R. had active nuclear missile bases in Cuba, many Americans feared that the Soviets could make an attempt take out our air bases without our even realizing it until it was too late. In being so clos...

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... unprovoked armed attack would start a disaster chain even leading most probably to World War III." When Dulles got back to Washington he specified that he meant sending in United States Air and Naval forces only, not troops. Almost immediately after getting word of the invasion, Acheson decided that the United States should put the matter before the United Nations. He then ... to repel the armed attack and regain international peace and security in the area. Earlier that day President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, had announced that he had ordered U.S. air and naval forces to g...

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... America is so many ways. It was a time that questioned the United States with what ifs. What if Kennedy did not decide to quarantine Cuba but rather order for an air attack? What if Khrushchev did come to terms with President Kennedy? These were questions that most Americans inflated in their minds during this crisis. The result of these missiles in ... the United States if we decided to destroy the missiles before hitting their target. One statement by Sorensen that expresses Kennedy's thoughts, "He choose the quarantine in preference to an air attack because it was a measured, limited...

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... during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A final reason that the quarantine was the best of the choices is that the other ideas were just absurd. Mainly, the choices of having an air strike to eliminate the weapons in Cuba and even a full-scale invasion. Both of these choices are ridiculous. They would have never worked, for the simple reason that they were ... the United States look bad to go into a small country like Cuba and annihilate them. Also, had the United States done air strikes, the Soviet Union could have launched the missiles they had in Cuba right away, unless the air strikes hit ...

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... war, your son/daughter want to marry one of the people that killed your own. It was a very hard thing to pass through. Chieko's husband during the war was an Air Force soldier. During World War 2, he was a tail gunner, planes that would shoot down Japanese planes. Also Michael was a Marine dive bomber, who was one of the people that bombed ... Japan. After that he was also in the Air Force during the Korean War. Then in the 1960's helped out in the Vietnam War. Chieko and Michael had two children, a boy and a girl. The boy, named Michael Dulina Jr ... College in Penn State. The first t...

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... also felt that no matter what, Japan would lose the war. Atomic Bomb, or no Atomic Bomb, Japan would soon be defeated. The Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces, Henry H. "Hap" Arnold said, "The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own ... air." (Page 334). Though Arnold felt the dropping of the bomb was unnecessary, he felt there were political implications in the decision and he did not feel it was the military's ... job to question it. Among some of the Air Force leaders, Major General...

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... next two years with deeper cuts if sequestration returns in the fiscal year of 2016. On top of these drastic reductions, Hagel claims to be eliminating an entire fleet of Air Force fighter planes. Although these cuts seem potentially devastating to the status of our defense, our Defense Secretary assured a sustained defense power. Touching on the reduction of active duty soldiers ... , "...the smaller force still would be capable of decisively defeating aggression in one major war while also defending the homeland and supporting air and naval forces engaged in another theater against an ...

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... war crisis later. The United States had to be prepared to face anything at any given time. Kennedy got together with advisors and discussed the options. He agreed that a surprise air attack against Cuba would be the best response. Kennedy announced a blockade would be put up before the actual strike. His advisors supported the blockade unless Khrushchev announced he would remove ... weren't shot down. He finally got authority to shoot the planes down. On October 27th, Cubans shot down a U-2 plane, killing a pilot. The Pentagon responded by saying that they wanted an air strike and then ...

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... under one man. He is one of the few generals ever to command major naval forces; he directed the world's greatest air force; he is the only man ever to command successfully an integrated, multinational alliance of ground, sea, and air forces. His integrity and his reputation for honesty helped to get him elected and he served two terms as President of ... ...

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... Cooper-Church Amendment, which specifically forbade the use of U.S. troops outside South Vietnam. The measure did! not expressly forbid bombing, however, so Nixon continued the air strikes on Cambodia until 1973. Nixon's continued reliance on expanded air war to provide cover for an American retreat angered U.S. citizens. Washington and Hanoi assumed that its southern allies would naturally accept any agreement drawn up ... ...

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... follows this genre by being about the 1960's Cold War, but having a comedic, twisted view of how the military works, especially in threatening situations. The plot is as follows: insane U.S. Air Force General, Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden), obsessed by his fears of "the communist conspiracy" orders the long range bombers under his command to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union ... he has the code that will recall the attack. Once the bombers are on their way he seals off his base and refuses all communication, including telephone calls from the Air Force and United States Presid...

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... times with bush pilots, and have experienced how the pilots cope with everyday hazards in the Arctic. During the summer and fall of 1978, I was working for the United States Air Force in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. I was in Cambridge Bay, Canada, during August, and needed to go to Barter Island, Alaska. The planes only fly west from Cambridge Bay, twice ... an emergency landing at a radar site named CAM-1. CAM-1 is one of twenty-seven radar sites on the 2 Distant Early Warning Line. These are sites maintained by the United States Air Force for early warning radar detection during the...

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... option was to bomb the missile sites, in effect taking out all of the missiles that they knew about. The second option was taking out the missiles first with an air strike, and then invading to remove any further missiles and overthrow Castro. (A fourth option was a trade off, the U.S. missiles in Turkey for the Russian missiles in Cuba.) Their final option ... Cuba. Without Robert McNamara, it is very well possible that the military personnel may have fired upon the transports ships or done some other act of war. General Curtis LeMay (Air Force Chief of Staff) also played a pivotal rol...

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... step into the war and once they got involved, it was hard to get out. On August 2, 1964, the North Vietnamese attacked two US Destroyers and the Americans retaliated by air attacks. This event lead them one more step deeper into the war. By the end of 1964, the United States had 23,000 "advisors" in Vietnam. These men and ... Air Force personnel were being targeted more than the French, who were starting to pull their troops out of Vietnam (Fowler 29). Then on February 7, 1965, the Viet Cong attacked a United ... ...

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... and written after the war was over in 1949. His opinion can also be seen as biased since he was the Commander of the Air Force and he talks mostly of how if given enough time the Air Force would have forced Japan to surrender using only High Explosive bombs. (Doc. B) This statement is ironic since after the first atomic bomb wiped ... ...

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An insane U.S. Air Force General, Jack Ripper, obsessed by his fears of "the communist conspiracy" ordered the long range bombers under his command to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, only ... that was able to recall the bombers. Once the bombers were on their way, he sealed off his base and refused any type of communication, including telephone calls from the Air Force as well as from the President of the United States. From there, the government's efforts are shown to call the planes back. "Dr. Strangelove" poked fun at what was ... ...

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... relation to the US, doing nothing would be foolish because it would almost guarantee that the Soviet Union would stock up Cuba with more weapons, and a surgical air strike was ruled out because the US Air Force did not think it would prove successful. Finally, after much deliberation, Kennedy ordered a quarantine to be placed on Cuba on October 22. Also, he declared ... ...

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