Research Catalog

Title

U.S. Army Apache helicopters and U.S. Air Force expeditionary forces : implications for future military operations / by Brad Mason.

Author

Mason, Brad.

Publication

Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. : Center for Strategy and Technology, Air War College, Air University, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Air University (U.S.). Center for Strategy and Technology.

Description

iii, 34 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

"This paper examines the operational concept, which is not entirely novel, of U.S. Army Attack helicopters operating in concertt with USAF fighter aircraft. Joint Air Attack Team (JAAT) doctrine and tactics are well established and the practical joint employment of these systems has been provalent since the Vietnam War. Aerospace Expeditionary Force (AEF) coalescing planning, training, and deployment functions and employing as a single integrated joint force."--Preface.

Series Statement

Occasional paper ; no. 22

Uniform Title

Occasional paper (Air University (U.S.). Center for Strategy and Technology); no. 22.

Alternative Title

• US Army Apache helicopters and US Air Force expeditionary forces
• United States Army Apache helicopters and United States Air Force expeditionary forces

Subject

• Apache (Attack helicopter)
• Military doctrine > United States
• Unified operations (Military science)
• United States. Air Force > Reorganization
• United States. Army > Aviation

Note

• "June 2001."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-33).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Operational concept -- Halt phase versus strategic preclusion: doctrinal battle or consensus -- The road to joint vision -- Transcending interservice bias and parochialism.

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Harvard Library