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Casting Off the Shadow: Tactical Air Command from Air Force Independence to the Vietnam War

Johnson, Phillip M.

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2014, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, History (Arts and Sciences).
The American military fully realized a third dimension of warfare in World War II that sparked a post-war discussion on the development and employment of air power. Officers of the Army Air Forces lobbied for an independent service devoted to this third dimension and agreed on basic principles for its application. By the time the Truman administration awarded the Air Force its autonomy, the strategic bombing mission had achieved primacy among its counterparts as well as a rising position in national defense planning. Because of the emphasis on the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, Tactical Air Command found itself in jeopardy of becoming an irrelevant organization in possession of technology and hardware that American defense planners would no longer deem necessary. In order to thwart irrelevancy Tactical Air Command underwent a modernization process to align it with national defense policy, but in the process, developed systems ill-suited to meet the challenges of limited, conventional war.
Ingo Trauschweizer (Advisor)
121 p.

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  • Johnson, P. M. (2014). Casting Off the Shadow: Tactical Air Command from Air Force Independence to the Vietnam War [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398949297

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Johnson, Phillip. Casting Off the Shadow: Tactical Air Command from Air Force Independence to the Vietnam War. 2014. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398949297.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Johnson, Phillip. "Casting Off the Shadow: Tactical Air Command from Air Force Independence to the Vietnam War." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398949297

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