Research Catalog

Title

Combat pair : the evolution of Air Force-Navy integration in strike warfare / Benjamin S. Lambeth.

Author

Lambeth, Benjamin S.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp., 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Project Air Force (U.S.)
• Rand Corporation.

Description

xxii, 105 p. ; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• United States. Air Force
• United States. Navy > Aviation
• United States. Marine Corps > Aviation
• Air warfare > United States > History
• Unified operations (Military science)
• Air warfare > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Prepared for the United States Airforce."
• "MG-655-AF."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- A backdrop of apartness -- The watershed of Desert Storm -- Post-Gulf War Navy adjustments to new demands -- First steps toward integrated strike-warfare training -- Continued sources of Navy-Air Force friction -- A convergence of integration over Afghanistan -- Further convergence in Operation Iraqi Freedom -- Emergent trends in Air-Force-Navy integration -- A new synergy of land- and sea-based strike warfare -- Further challenges and opportunities.

ISBN

9780833042095 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007044048

OCLC

176861815

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library