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Mode of access: Internet from the Air University Press web site. Address as of 10/9/03: http://aupress.au.af.mil/SAAS%5FTheses/Beene/Beene.pdf; current access is available via PURL. |
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Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 9, 2003). |
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"July 2002." |
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School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. 2000-2001 |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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DOD is still struggling to define itself in the post-cold-war age more than a decade after the new period began. With a strategy and force structure review occurring on average every two years, the military has still not been able to generate a consistent basis on which to justify its force structure or its strategy. Colonel Beene uses a decision analysis framework as a foundation for creating such a basis. Instead of depending on leadership for guidance, which changes with destabilizing regularity, he relies on the theories of coercion that began in the cold war era. Colonel Beene contends that these theories have particular value today, especially in light of the many innovations the nation has undertaken in the past decade. Modified and translated for modern conventional warfare, these theories form the basis for a framework of enduring requirements for any military force that undertakes a coercive strategy. Colonel Beene develops this framework to the operational level of analysis, and it is applied to two developmental air platforms, the Global Hawk Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle. He describes how this analysis tool compares to other tools of strategy and force structure assessment. Colonel Beene recommends the framework's continued use and development. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Air power -- United States.
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Drone aircraft -- United States.
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Organization.
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Air power. (OCoLC)fst00802495
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Armed Forces -- Organization.
(OCoLC)fst01351846
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Drone aircraft. (OCoLC)fst00898349
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Air University (U.S.). Press.
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Air University (U.S.). School of Advanced Airpower Studies.
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Other Form: |
Beene, Eric A. Enduring framework for assessing the contributions of force structure to a coercive strategy ix, 79 p. (OCoLC)50502841 |
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0422-K-02 (online) |
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D 301.26/6-9:2004001165 |
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