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Thinking Airpower in Context: American War in Seven Charts
Blown Slick Series #9 Seven Charts That Help Explain American War How Many Years In Its History Has America Been at War? Where Has America Fought? Why Has America Fought? How Does America Fight ? Who Are America’s Formal Defense Partners? … Continue reading
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Tagged A2AD, Aircraft Carriers, Airpower, AirSeaBattle, Strike Warfare, War-at-Sea
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Airpower, Elephants and Such (Part 2)
Blown Slick Series #8 (Part 2/3) Continuing from Part 1 – drilling down To make reasonable decisions in regard to analysis of future airpower, and also how implementation of emerging technical and derivative tactical concepts plays into the application of airpower, one … Continue reading
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Tagged Airpower, AirSeaBattle, Close Air Support, F-35, Fifth Generation Fighter, Fighter, SEAD, Strike Warfare
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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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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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Users’ Guide for Building A Blown Slick “Snowmobile”
Blown Slick Series #7 (Part 1) To discern what is going on we must interact in a variety of ways with our environment. In other words We must be able to examine the world from a number of perspectives so … Continue reading
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“It’s Only Reading If You Do It”
Blown Slick Series #6 It is a true statement but not an indictment, that the fleets of the world never had a formal requirement for an airplane, or a submarine, or a communications satellite. Instead, in all cases, a debate … Continue reading
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Tagged A2AD, Aircraft Carriers, Airpower, AirSeaBattle, Close Air Support, F-35, Fifth Generation Fighter, Fighter, SEAD, Strike Warfare
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The 4th of June – Remembered Sky Day
Blown Slick Series#5 The A-7 Corsair II carried a healthy fuel load for a carrier based strike aircraft. On major strikes – those to significant, highly defended targets – into North Vietnam called “Alpha Strikes” with 30 -40 A-7,s, A-6’s, F-4’s, bombers, … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Blown Slick Series, Book Reviews, On their Shoulders, War and Remembrance
Tagged Aircraft Carriers, Airpower, Battle of Midway, Close Air Support, SEAD, Strike Warfare, Vietnam Air War
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BLOWN SLICK – Light Attack Fast Pursuit; Airpower Analysis by Boris
Blown Slick Series#4 “… it has been decades since the last significant contribution to airpower theory. Given the shifting character of war and rapid technological change, a solid modern airpower theory will be required for the West to achieve strategic … Continue reading
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The “Fighter Pilot”
Blown Slick Series #2 The first post for the Blown Slick series made the point that the series is about attack – missions and pilots, so you might ask why “fighter pilots?” Words in this case can deceive. Please read … Continue reading
Posted in Blown Slick Series, War and Remembrance
Tagged Airpower, Attack, Fifth Generation Fighter, Fighter, Strike Warfare, Vietnam Air War
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The Mission of “Attack” – The Blown Slick Series Introduction
Blown Slick Series #1 (See also : Preface to Blown Slick -the series: The evolution of fighter, attack, and strike warfare) He would go on to be Vice Chief of Naval Operations and head the FAA, but in mid-December 1971 … Continue reading
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Tagged A2AD, Airpower, AirSeaBattle, Attack, Close Air Support, F-35, Fifth Generation Fighter, Fighter, SEAD, Strike Warfare, Vietnam Air War, War-at-Sea
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