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Defending air bases in an age of insurgency / edited by Shannon W. Caudill.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2014.
Publication Info Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air University Press, Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education, 2019.
Publication Info Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air University Press, 2021.
Description1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations (some color), color maps
Supplemental Content https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo56453
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorCaudill, Shannon W., editor.
Other author/creatorAir University (U.S.). Press publisher.
Other author/creatorAir University (U.S.). Air Force Research Institute, issuing body.
Other author/creatorCurtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education, issuing body.
Contents [volume 1]. [Without special title] -- volume 2. [Without special title] -- volume 3. Integrated base defense principles for commanders.
Partial contents [Volume 1]: Introduction -- Part 1. Historical and international perspectives -- A short history of air base defense: from World War I to Iraq -- A Canadian perspective on air base ground defense: ad hoc is not good enough -- Air support for base defense: lessons for the noncontiguous battlefield -- Part 2. Case study -- Balad air base, Iraq. -- Defending the joint force: lesons learned from Joint Base Balad -- The defense of Joint Base Balad: an analysis -- Part 3. There is no "rear area" : changes to air base defense in a counterinsurgency environment -- The Air Force's new ground war : ensuring projection of air and space power through expeditionary security operations -- Sharpening the eagle's talons : assessing advances in air base defense doctrine -- Setting the right glide slope : preparing the Air Force for the next counterinsurgency campaign -- Part 4. Organizing for the future -- Nowhere to hide : the growing threat to air bases -- Law enforcement and base defense : improving interoperability to benefit the war fighter -- Conclusion : ten propositions on the defense of air bases -- Afterword -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography.
General note[Volume I] lacks index.
General noteGPO Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource, PDF version; title from title page (viewed Mar. 30, 2015).
Issued in other formPrint version: Caudill, Shannon W. Defending air bases in an age of insurgency. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2014 9781585662418
Genre/formCase studies.
Genre/formHistory.
GPO item number0422-K (online)
Govt. docs number D 301.26/6:IN 7/

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