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Air power as a coercive instrument
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ISBN: 128245109X 9786612451096 0833048287 0585245487 0833027433 9780585245485 9780833048288 9780833027436 Year: 1999 Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. Rand

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Coercion--the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior--is a critical function of the U.S. military. U.S. forces have recently fought in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf, and the Horn of Africa to compel recalcitrant regimes and warlords to stop repression, abandon weapons programs, permit humanitarian relief, and otherwise modify their actions. Yet despite its overwhelming military might, the United States often fails to coerce successfully. This report examines the phenomenon of coercion and how air power can contribute to its success. Three factors increase the lik


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Sensing of deadly toxic chemical warfare agents, nerve agent simulants, and their toxicological aspects
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ISBN: 0323905536 0323906729 9780323905534 9780323906722 Year: 2022 Publisher: Amsterdam

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Sensing of Deadly Toxic Chemical Warfare Agents, Nerve Agent Simulants, and their Toxicological Aspects provides a general overview of the development and performance of different novel molecular frameworks as potent vehicles for sensing Chemical Weapons (CWs). The chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the areas of materials science, medical science, chemical science, and nanotechnology from industries, academics, government and private research institutions across the globe. It covers cover topics such as inorganic nanocomposites, hyperbranched polymers, and graphene heterojunctions for effective sensing of CW agents.


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Denying flight
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ISBN: 0833081810 0833081829 0833081780 9780833081827 9780833081810 9780833081834 0833081837 9780833081780 Year: 2013 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA

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In the past two decades, the U.S. Air Force has participated in three contingencies involving no-fly zones (NFZs) over Bosnia, Iraq, and Libya, and NFZ proposals have been proffered for some time as an option for intervention in the Syrian civil war that would avoid placing Western troops on the ground. This paper is intended as a preliminary look at NFZs as a strategic approach in such situations, with an emphasis on the forms they might take, their potential utility, and their probable limitations.


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Combat pair
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ISBN: 1281430137 9786611430139 083304432X 0833042092 9780833044327 9781281430137 9780833042095 661143013X Year: 2007 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA RAND Corp.

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This report documents the exceptional cross-service harmony that the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy have steadily developed in their conduct of integrated strike operations since the first Persian Gulf War in 1991. That close harmony contrasts sharply with the situation that prevailed throughout most of the Cold War, when the two services maintained separate and unique operating mindsets and lacked any significant interoperability features. The most influential factor accounting for this gradual trend toward integration was the nation's ten-year experience with Operations Northern and Southern W


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Implications of an Air Force budget downturn on the aircraft industrial base
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ISBN: 0833083732 0833080237 9780833083739 9780833080233 Year: 2013 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA RAND


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Sustaining key skills in the UK military aircraft industry
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ISBN: 0833050419 9786613530790 1280126930 0833059572 9780833059574 9780833050410 Year: 2010 Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. RAND

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The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence's Fixed Wing Sector Strategy Board commissioned RAND Europe to assist in the development of a strategy and sustainment plan for the military fixed wing sector. RAND focused on the health and sustainment of key skills in the sector's industrial base. This monograph describes the qualitative and quantitative methodologies that the RAND team followed and summarises its findings and recommendations.


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Shaking the heavens and splitting the earth
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ISBN: 0833049321 0833051911 9780833051912 9780833051134 083305113X 9780833049322 Year: 2011 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA RAND

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This monograph analyzes published Chinese and Western sources about current and future capabilities and employment concepts of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). It describes how those capabilities and concepts might be realized in a conflict over Taiwan, assesses the implications of China implementing them, and provides recommendations about actions that should be taken in response.


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The effectiveness of remotely piloted aircraft in a permissive hunter-killer scenario
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ISBN: 0833086944 9780833086945 9780833083975 083308397X Year: 2014 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA RAND


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The Blitz companion : aerial warfare, civilians and the city since 1911
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ISBN: 1911534491 1911534483 9781911534495 9781911534501 1911534505 9781911534518 1911534513 Year: 2019 Publisher: London : University of Westminster Press,

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The Blitz Companion offers a unique overview of a century of aerial warfare, its impact on cities and the people who lived in them. It tells the story of aerial warfare from the earliest bombing raids and in World War 1 through to the London Blitz and Allied bombings of Europe and Japan. These are compared with more recent American air campaigns over Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, the NATO bombings during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s and subsequent bombings in the aftermath of 9/11. Beginning with the premonitions and predictions of air warfare and its terrible consequences, the book focuses on air raids precautions, evacuation and preparations for total war, and resilience, both of citizens and of cities. The legacies of air raids, from reconstruction to commemoration, are also discussed. While a key theme of the book is the futility of many air campaigns, care is taken to situate them in their historical context. The Blitz Companion also includes a guide to documentary and visual resources for students and general readers. Uniquely accessible, comparative and broad in scope this book draws key conclusions about civilian experience in the twentieth century and what these might mean for military engagement and civil reconstruction processes once conflicts have been resolved.

Competition and innovation
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ISBN: 0833036017 0833033506 9780833036018 9780833033505 Year: 2003 Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. RAND

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Responds to Senate?s concerns that further consolidation in the military-aircraft industry from its current three prime contractors would pose risks to innovation and cost through limited or no competition in contracting for military aircraft and related weapon systems for the Defense Department. Describes that industry, evaluates what is required to maintain the industry at a high level of innovation, assesses industry?s prospects for innovation and competition, and identifies policy options open to the DoD.

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