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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin S Lambeth; United States. Air Force.; Project Air Force (U.S.) |
| ISBN: | 0833030507 9780833030504 |
| OCLC Number: | 47739641 |
| Notes: | "Prepared for the United States Air Force." "Project AIR FORCE." |
| Description: | xxxiv, 276 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Prelude to Combat -- The Air War Unfolds -- Initial Attacks and Their Effects -- The Air War Bogs Down -- NATO Finally Escalates -- Facing the Need for a Ground Option -- Countdown to Capitulation -- The Endgame -- Why Milosevic Gave Up When He did -- Considerations in Addition to the Bombing -- The Prospect of a Ground Invasion -- Milosevic's Probable Decision Calculus -- The Determining Role of the Air War -- Accomplishments of the Air War -- The Combat Debut of the B-2 -- UAV Employment -- The Contributions of Space -- Friction and Operational Problems -- Frustrations with the SEAD Effort -- The F-117 Shootdown -- Problems with Flexible Targeting -- Stray Weapons and the Loss of Innocents -- The Chinese Embassy Bombing -- Task Force Hawk -- Shortcomings in Intelligence Cycle Time -- Airspace and Traffic Flow Management -- Deficiencies with Respect to Space -- Interoperability Problems -- The Wages of U.S. Overcommitment -- Lapses in Strategy and Implementation -- Allied Miscalculations and False Hopes -- Problems at the Coalition Level -- Problems at the U.S. Level -- The Desultory Onset of the Air War -- The Failure to Employ a Coherent Plan -- The Downside of Alliance Warfare -- Command and Control Shortcomings -- Nato's Air War in perspective -- The Achievements of Allied Force -- The Air War's Failings -- Gradualism and Its Implications -- The Cost of the Missing Ground Threat -- Toward a "Report Card" for Allied Force -- On the Uses and Abuses of Air Power. |
| Series Title: | Project Air Force series on Operation Allied Force. |
| Responsibility: | Benjamin S. Lambeth. |
Abstract:
"This book offers a thorough appraisal of Operation Allied Force, NATO's 78-day air war to compel the president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, to end his campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo. The author sheds light both on the operation's strengths and on its most salient weaknesses. He outlines the key highlights of the air war and examines the various factors that interacted to induce Milosevic to capitulate when he did. He then explores air power's most critical accomplishments in Operation Allied Force as well as the problems that hindered the operation both in its planning and in its execution. Finally, he assesses Operation Allied Force from a political and strategic perspective, calling attention to those issues that are likely to have the greatest bearing on future military policymaking. The book concludes that the air war, although by no means the only factor responsible for the allies' victory, certainly set the stage for Milosevic's surrender by making it clear that he had little to gain by holding out. It concludes that in the end, Operation Allied Force's most noteworthy distinction may lie in the fact that the allies prevailed despite the myriad impediments they faced."--Rand abstracts.
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- Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Aerial operations.
- Operation Allied Force, 1999.
- Opération Force alliée, 1999.
- Kosovo (Serbie) -- Histoire -- 1998-1999 (Guerre civile) -- Opérations aériennes.
- NATO
- Strategie
- Militär
- Kosovo-Krieg
- Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord -- Forces armées -- Aviation.
- Guerre du Kosovo (1998-1999).
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
- TECHNOLOGY / Military Science
