The Half War: Planning U.S. Rapid Deployment Forces to Meet a Limited Contingency 1960-1983

ISBN-13: 9780367308223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 277 str.

Robert P. Haffa Jr

Opis

This book offers a strategic, organizational, and logistical analysis in a historical context of the planning of U.S. conventional forces to meet a limited contingency. It focuses on attempts to institutionalize concepts of force planning for the limited contingency.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Force Planning for a Limited Contingency: Constancy and Change in the U.S. Strategic Concept, 1960-1980 -- Organizing for the Limited Contingency: Institutionalizing Strategies of Rapid Deployment, 1960-1980 -- Supporting the Limited Contingency: Mobility Systems for Rapid Deployment, 1960-1980 -- Force Planning for the Half War: The RDJTF as a Limited Contingency Force -- Planning for Rapidly Deployable Forces in the 1980s

O autorze

Colonel Haffa is associate professor and deputy department head in political science at the U.S. Air Force Academy.