The Icarus syndrome: the role of air power theory in the evolution and fate of the US Air Force
BUILDER Carl H
The Icarus syndrome: the role of air power theory in the evolution and fate of the US Air Force - New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1994 - 299p.
At the end of the Reagan era, many in the US Air Force began to express their concerns about the health of their institution. They questioned whether the Air Force had lost its sense of direction, its confidence, its values, even its future. For some, these concerns reflected nothing more than the maturation of the most youthful of America's military institutions. For others it was a crisis of spirit that threatened the hard-won independence of the Air Force. The book begins with an overview of the current crisis of values within the Air Force, with the long litany of expressed concerns about what seems to have gone wrong within the institution. The diagnosisof the icarus syndrome is that these problems may all be traced back to the abandonment of the air power theory. to develop that diagnosis, the historyof the US Air Force at the hands of air power theory is developed in 12 chapters that constitute the first half of the book. The remainder of the book is an analyisis of what went wrong and when, how these wrongs might be corrected, and the challenges for the Air Force leadership in the future.
1560001410 (hbk.)
AIR FORCE--UNITED STATES
The Icarus syndrome: the role of air power theory in the evolution and fate of the US Air Force - New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1994 - 299p.
At the end of the Reagan era, many in the US Air Force began to express their concerns about the health of their institution. They questioned whether the Air Force had lost its sense of direction, its confidence, its values, even its future. For some, these concerns reflected nothing more than the maturation of the most youthful of America's military institutions. For others it was a crisis of spirit that threatened the hard-won independence of the Air Force. The book begins with an overview of the current crisis of values within the Air Force, with the long litany of expressed concerns about what seems to have gone wrong within the institution. The diagnosisof the icarus syndrome is that these problems may all be traced back to the abandonment of the air power theory. to develop that diagnosis, the historyof the US Air Force at the hands of air power theory is developed in 12 chapters that constitute the first half of the book. The remainder of the book is an analyisis of what went wrong and when, how these wrongs might be corrected, and the challenges for the Air Force leadership in the future.
1560001410 (hbk.)
AIR FORCE--UNITED STATES