Readings


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1 Introduction [No readings]
2 What is military doctrine?

Buy at Amazon Posen, Barry. The Sources of Military Doctrine. Ithaca, NY and London, UK: Cornell University Press, 1984, pp. 13-33. ISBN: 9780801416330.

Buy at Amazon Rosen, Stephen Peter. Winning the Next War. Ithaca, NY and London, UK: Cornell University Press, 1991, pp. 1-22. ISBN: 9780801425561.

Buy at Amazon Frankland, Noble. Bomber Offensive: The Devastation of Europe. New York, NY: Ballantine Books Inc., 1970, pp. 1-160. ISBN: 9780345019059.

3 Armored warfare

Buy at Amazon Biddle, Stephen. Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 28-51 and 52-77. ISBN: 9780691128023.

Buy at Amazon House, Jonathan. Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2001, pp. 107-183. ISBN: 9780700610983.

Buy at Amazon Luttwak, Edward N. Strategy and History: Collected Essays, Volume 2. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1985, pp. 175-193. ISBN: 9780887380655.

Buy at Amazon Van Creveld, Martin. Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton. New York, NY, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1977, pp. 202-230. ISBN: 9780521546577.

Buy at Amazon ———. Military Lessons of the Yom Kippur War: Historical Perspectives – The Washington Papers Volume III. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies, Sage Hill Publications, 1975. ISBN: 9780803905627.

4 Strategic bombing

Heilenday, Frank W. Daylight Raids by the U.S. Eighth Air Force: Lessons Learned and Lingering Myths from World War II. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1995.

———. Night Raids by the British Bomber Command: Lessons Learned and Lingering Myths from World War II. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1995.

MacIsaac, David. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey. New York, NY: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1976 Vol. II. pp. 1-31.

Buy at Amazon Musgrove, Gordon. Pathfinder Force: A History of 8 Group. London, UK: MacDonald and Jane's, 1976, pp. 1-31, 217-219, 200-244, and 247-276. ISBN: 9780354010177.

Buy at Amazon Lacey-Johnson, L. Point Blank and Beyond. UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 2002, pp. 35-39, 57-82, and 233-236. ISBN: 9781840373677.

Boylan, Bernard Lawrence. The Development of the American Long-Range Escort Fighter. University of Missouri Dissertation, 1955, pp. 151-224.

Buy at Amazon McFarland, Stephen L. America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910-1945. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, pp. 165-190, 206-209, 221-232, and 277-284. ISBN: 9781560987840.

Buy at Amazon Crane, Conrad C. Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II. Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1993, pp. 63-77 and 174-176. ISBN: 9780700611034.

Parks, W. Hays. "'Precision' and `Area' Bombing: Who Did Which, and When?" The Journal of Strategic Studies 18, no. 1, (March 1995): 145-174.

Buy at Amazon Streetly, Martin. Confound and Destroy: 100 Group and The Bomber Support Campaign. London, UK: MacDonald and Jane's, 1978, pp. 7-8 and 128-149. ISBN: 9780354011808.

Buy at Amazon Aders, Gebhard. History of the German Night Fighter Force 1917-1945. London, UK: Jane's Publishing Company, 1979, pp. 55-59, 74-88, 94-112, 121-128, 166-182, and 218-221. ISBN: 9780354012478.

Buy at Amazon Frankland, Noble. "The Combined Bomber Offensive: Classical and Revolutionary, Combined and Divided, Planned and Fortuitous." In Command and Commanders in Modern Warfare. Edited by William Geffen. Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF and United States Air Force Academy, 1971, pp. 253-267.

5 Naval warfare (WWII)

Buy at Amazon Brodie, Bernard. A Layman's Guide to Naval Strategy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1942, pp. 3-116 and 175-214.

Buy at Amazon Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1968, pp. 1-50, 156-210, and 320-350. ISBN: 9781557507013.

Buy at Amazon Moulton, J. L. A Study of Warfare in 3 Dimensions: The Norwegian Campaign of 1940. Athens, OH: The Ohio University Press, 1967, pp. 19-34 and 263-298.

Buy at Amazon Hezlet, Sir Arthur. Aircraft and Sea Power. New York, NY: Stein and Day, 1970, pp. 202-213, 221-231, and 235-236. ISBN: 9780432067314.

Buy at Amazon ———. The Submarine and Sea Power. New York, NY: Stein and Day, 1967, pp. 191-227.

Buy at Amazon Price, Alfred. Aircraft versus Submarine. London, UK: Jane's Publishing Company, 1980, pp. 128-129 (map). ISBN: 9780710600080.

6 Naval warfare (Cold War) Buy at Amazon Cote, Owen. The Third Battle: Innovation in the U.S. Navy's Silent Cold War Struggle with Soviet Submarines. Newport, RI: Naval War College, 2003. ISBN: 9781441467829.
7 Air to Air

Buy at Amazon Carpenter, P. Mason. Joint Operations in the Gulf War: An Allison Analysis. Air University, thesis, 1995, pp. 11-20.

Buy at Amazon Cohen, Eliot, and Thomas A. Keaney. Gulf War Air Power Survey: Operations and Effectiveness. Vol. II. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1993, pp 112-113 and 119-123. ISBN: 9780160429101.

Buy at Amazon Fallows, James. National Defense. New York, NY: Random House, 1981, pp. 95-106. ISBN: 9780394518244.

Buy at Amazon Price, Alfred. Air Battle Central Europe. New York, NY: The Free Press, 1986. pp 37-54. ISBN: 978-0029254516.

Buy at Amazon Anderegg, C. R. Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade After Vietnam. Washington, DC: Government Reprints Press, 2001, pp. 149-164. ISBN: 978193183904.

Buy at Amazon Westrum, Ron. Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999, pp. 170-206. ISBN: 9781557509512.

Buy at Amazon Wilcox, Robert. Black Aces High: The Story of a Modern Fighter Squadron at War. New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2002, pp. 3-9. ISBN: 9780312997083.

Buy at Amazon Stimson, George W. Introduction to Airborne Radar, Second Edition. Mendham, NJ: SciTech Publishing Inc., 1998, pp. 293-308 and 325-334. ISBN: 9781891121012.

Electronic Warfare Fundamentals. Nellis AFB, November 2000, pp. 5-1 and 5-21.

Robinson, Clarence A., Jr. "Fighter, Missile Gains Pressed." Aviation Week and Space Technology (April 4, 1977).

———. "Aerial Combat Test to Advance." Aviation Week and Space Technology (April 25, 1977).

Watts, Barry D. Clausewitzian Friction and Future War. Washington, DC: National Defense University Institute for National Strategic Studies, McNair Paper 52, October 1996, (Revised July 2000) pp. 1-10.

8 Defense suppression

Buy at Amazon Brungess, James. Setting The Context: Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses and Joint War Fighting in an Uncertain World. Maxwell AFB: Air University Press, 1994, pp. 93-110.

Buy at Amazon Thornborough, Anthony M., and Frank B. Mormillo. Iron Hand. Sparkford, UK: J. H. Haynes and Co., Ltd, 2002, pp. 178-179, 190-191, 248-251, and 255-288. ISBN: 9781852606053.

Buy at Amazon Price, Alfred. Air Battle Central Europe. New York, NY: Free Press, 1987, pp. 102-111 and 122-139. ISBN: 9780029254516.

Electronic Warfare Fundamentals. Nellis AFB, November 2000, pp. 17-15 and 17-20.

Fulghum, David A., and Robert Wall. "Data Link, EW Problems Pinpointed by Pentagon." Aviation Week and Space Technology (September 6, 1999): 87.

Isby, David C. "Targeting pod upgrade for F-16s." Air Force News 3, no. 18 (September 17, 1999). Jane's Information Group Limited.

Tirpak, John A. "Dealing With Air Defense." Air Force Magazine (November 1999): 25. Air Force Association.

Bender, Bryan. "USAF to expand anti-radar attack capability." Jane's Defence Weekly 32, no. 24 (December 15, 1999). Jane's Information Group Limited, Section: The Americas.

Isby, David C. "Funding cut could delay HARM targeting system upgrade." Jane's Missiles and Rockets 4, no. 2 (February 1, 2000). Jane's Information Group Limited, Section: Air-to-Surface.

Wall, Robert. "Netted Approach to Kill SAMs." Aviation Week and Space Technology 153, no. 14 (October 2, 2000): 67. Section: Electronic Warfare.

———. "Location, Location." Aviation Week and Space Technology (November 24, 2003): 43-44.

———. "Dead On" and "Pack Mentality." Aviation Week and Space Technology (November 24, 2003): 46-47.

———. "In HARM's Way." Aviation Week and Space Technology (November 24, 2003): 45-46.

———. "HARM in Trying: Italian Involvement Would Build on Prior Anti-radar Cooperation." Aviation Week & Space Technology (October 18, 2004): 56.

———. "Alternative Path; U.S. Air Force Eyes Upgrade to Raytheon Anti-radar Missile." Aviation Week & Space Technology (December 6, 2004): 34.

———. "Sharper Stint; HARM Targeting System Upgrade to Double Range of Fielded Version." Aviation Week & Space Technology (January 3, 2005): 55.

9 Precision strike

Blackwelder, Donald I. The Long Road to Desert Storm and Beyond: The Development of Precision Guided Bombs. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1993, pp. 1-40.

Buy at Amazon Anderegg, C. R. Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade After Vietnam. Washington, DC: Government Reprints Press, 2001, pp. 119-142. ISBN: 9781931839044.

Buy at Amazon Futrell, Robert. Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force 1961-1984. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, December 1989, pp. 558-566.

Buy at Amazon Cohen, Eliot, and Thomas Keaney. Gulf War Air Power Survey: Weapons, Tactics and Training. 4 vols. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1993, pp. 85-88, 127-141, and 252-295.

Cahlink, George. "Birth of a Bomb." Government Executive Magazine. August 15, 2003. Washington DC.

Brown, Malina. "Navy Zeros JDAM HART Account to Pay for Small Diameter Bomb." In Inside the Navy. February 9, 2004, p. 1.

10 Strategic mobility

Buy at Amazon Haffa, Robert P., Jr. The Half War: Planning U.S. Rapid Deployment Forces to Meet a Loaded Contingency, 1960-1983. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984, pp. 145-203. ISBN: 9780865317161.

Buy at Amazon Miller, Charles E. Airlift Doctrine. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1989, pp. 365-420. ISBN: 9789990634129.

Buy at Amazon Matthews, James K., and Cora Holt. So Many, So Much, So Far, So Fast. Scott AFB, IL: Joint History Office, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Research Center, United States Transportation Command, 1996, pp. 115-161. ISBN: 9789996968952.

Buy at Amazon Vick, Alan, David Orletsky, Bruce Pirnie, and Seth Jones. The Stryker Brigade Combat Team: Rethinking Strategic Responsiveness and Assessing Deployment Options. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2002, pp. 1-55. ISBN: 9780833032683.

11 Tactical mobility

Buy at Amazon English, John A. On Infantry. New York, NY: Praeger, 1984, pp. 185-216. ISBN: 9780030014093.

Karagosian, John, and Christopher Coglianese. "Kings of the Road: Heavy and Light Forces in MOUT." In Infantry. January-February 2004, pp. 40-44.

"Urban Lessons Learned: Operation Peace for Galilee." In FreeRepublic.com.

Brian R. Zahn. The Future Combat System: Minimizing Risk While Maximizing Capability. MIT Security Studies Program Working Paper, April 24, 2000, pp. 1-49.

Buy at Amazon Gelbart, Marsh. Modern Israeli Tanks and Infantry Carriers 1985-2004. Osceola, WI: Osprey Publishing, 2004, pp. 1-48. ISBN: 9781841765792.

12 ISR platforms

Buy at Amazon Day, Dwayne A., John Logsdon, and Brian Latell, eds. Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998, pp. 29-85 and 143-156. ISBN: 9781560988304.

Buy at Amazon Lewis, Jonathan. Spy Capitalism: Itek and the CIA. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, pp. 219-261. ISBN: 9780300091922.

NRO Organization. "Pentagon Briefing on Space Transformation." February 7, 2002.

Erhard, Col. Thomas. UAV's in the United States Armed Forces: A Comparative Study of Weapon System Innovation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University PhD thesis, 2000, pp. 103-214, 403-567,636, and 639-651.

Buy at Amazon Newcome, Lawrence. Unmanned Aviation: A Brief History of Aerial Vehicles. Reston, VA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc, 2004, pp. 101-116. ISBN: 9781563476440.

Fulghum, David. "NRO Wants UAVs." Aviation Week and Space Technology (September 22, 2003): 54-55.

13 ISR networks

Kaspar, Beth. DARPATech 99 presentation. Script available online at KasparScript. Slides (see slide 5 of 17) Available online (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Chestnut, Paul. "Emitter Location Accuracy Using TDOA and Differential Doppler." IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic Systems AES-18, no. 2 (March 1982): 21-218.

Gerard, DesJardins. "TDOA/FDOA Technique for locating a transmitter." United States Patent (October 15, 1993).

"Anti-Radar Weapon Development Pushed." Aviation Week and Space Technology (January 27, 1975): 107.

Elson, Benjamin. "USAF Picks Lockheed Team to Develop Targeting System." Aviation Week and Space Technology (July 11, 1997): 23.

Klass, Philip. "Air Force to Test Enemy Radar Locator." Aviation Week and Space Technology (July 23, 1984): 19.

"Lockheed Awarded Fund to Continue PLSS Testing." Aviation Week and Space Technology (September 14, 1987): 89.

Andronov, A. "The U.S. Navy's 'White Cloud' Spaceborne ELINT System." Foreign Military Review 7, (1993): 57-60. ISSN 0134-921X.

"Precision SIGNINT Targeting System (PSTS)."

Jette, Bruce. "Review of the Conclusion and Model of the SIGINT Mix Study." March 26, 1996, pp. 2-15.

Fulghum, David A. "It takes and Network to Beat a Network." Aviation Week and Space Technology (November 11, 2002): 28.

———. "Pup Listens, Points." Aviation Week and Space Technology (August 23-30, 2004): 36-37.

14 Satellite communications/ papers due [No Readings]

Optional Additional Reading

Armored Warfare

Strategic Bombing

Naval Warfare (WWII)