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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Airpower, Elephants, Fallacies, Bonfires, Something Old, Something New
Blown Slick Series #8 (Part 1/3) Airpower characteristics itemizes strictly enduring physical features: speed, reach, height, and as a consequence ubiquity, agility, and concentration. A relatively high technological focus by air forces is inevitable, necessary, and indeed desirable. But the … Continue reading
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Tagged Airpower, AirSeaBattle, F-35, Fifth Generation Fighter, Fighter, SEAD, Strike Warfare
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Users’ Guide Part 2 – Tools
Blown Slick Series #7 (Part 2) … We will use this scheme of pulling things apart (analysis) and putting them back together (synthesis) in new combinations to find how apparently unrelated ideas and actions can be related to one another. Boyd Part … Continue reading
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Tagged Airpower, AirSeaBattle, Close Air Support, Fifth Generation Fighter, Fighter, Strike Warfare
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