Strategic Air Command

estimates and recent experience. Strategic planners also failed to establish command and control of the assault force. Lack of forethought for an integrated joint operation, although ultimately successful, led to the death of U.S. service members. Joint planning for Operation Anaconda, with its complex variables requiring integrated skills, failed to account for enemy variables, withheld information from support elements, and failed to establish effective command and control. Enemy Initial planning

way the air force can mobilize, implement, and attack enemy forces in short time as well in full spectrum of the theater of operations. This is huge distinctive compares with other armed services in using of airpower and destroys the enemy country or alliance. As we know, the war is a continue of politics by other means which means that the political leadership is involved in war objectives. Especially in the air force warfare, political objectives must be clear before starting to employ the aerial

naval forces was limited. The USS Enterprise, the most revered and decorated ship in World War II, and 216 battleships were central to the American forces. Through an analysis of the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war, it is evident that although both American and Japanese forces lacked unity of command, American victory was a result of their adherence to the principles of war, including offensive, maneuver, and mass, and Japanese negligence to the principles of simplicity, mass, and

1.The general differences between a geographic combatant command (GCC) and a functional command start with the titles, and is codified in what is called the Unified Command Plan establishing joint commands. A geographic combatant is responsible for a specific geographic portion of the world called an Area of Responsibility. The world is divided into 6 geographic areas, and respectively the commands that are responsible for all military operations in those regions are as follows: 1. AFRICOM- The continent

For more than a century, mankind has occupied all three domains of this earth; subsequently, the realm of warfare has expanded into the three dimensions progressively with the conquering of land, sea, and ultimately the air. With the advent of functional airplanes at the beginning of the last century, powered, sustained, and controlled flight was achieved during the inaugural flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903, fulfilling a dream that had occupied the minds of man for more than millennia

to designate USCYBER Command as a combatant command.19 This essay addresses how the use of cyber-attacks, as a military force, can destroy strategic targets and how Hart and Sun Tzu would view cyber-attacks. A state sponsored cyber-attack designed and executed with the intent of causing willful destruction to another nation is an act of war. In his article, Cyber War Will Take Place, John Stone states that cyber-attacks can produce the violence required to damage strategic targets and destroy enemy

Account for the Luftwaffe’s Failure to win the Battle of Britain In the summer of 1940, shortly after the Germans successfully invaded France, the struggle to gain air superiority was fought between the Royal Air Force of Great Britain and the Luftwaffe of Germany. This air campaign, known as the Battle of Britain, was Hitler's first step in his plan to invade England. However, the Luftwaffe were unsuccessful and the battle was won by the British. This essay will examine the factors behind the victory

The Battle of Normandy was the turning point in Europe; moreover, it was also conceived, by most, the beginning of the end of World War II. The Strategic objective of “Operation Overlord”, the code-name given to the invasion, was to enter the continent of Europe and undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces. The Allies fought and won battles using intangible armies, and furthermore, they gained the advantage in a battle of minds. The Allied leaders

World War Two (WWII) air combat was a commonly used war tactic. Many countries in WWII had an Air Force. The Air Forces usually consisted of bombers and fighters. The United States who entered the war after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor had a particularly large Air Force. The U.S. Air Force Had several groups but a major Air Force group was the Eighth Air Force. The Eighth Air Force’s role in WWII was essential to the defeat of Hitler’s Nazi rule by bombardment of strategic targets in Europe. Wich

elements operating in the Air, Maritime, Land and Cyber domains as well as Space, is one of the strongest drivers for domain integration. The airpower is the most capable means, complying to and fitted with the requirements to be a successful one in the modern Network-Centric Warfare, due to its unique core attributes as height, speed and reach and their functional derivatives. The comprehensive influence exerted by the application of airpower over the achievement of strategic objectives and desired