Combat pair : the evolution of Air Force-Navy integration in strike warfare / / Benjamin S. Lambeth.

• Author: Lambeth, Benjamin S.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (129 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This report documents the exceptional cross-service harmony that the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy have steadily developed in their conduct of integrated strike operations since the first Persian Gulf War in 1991. That close harmony contrasts sharply with the situation that prevailed throughout most of the Cold War, when the two services maintained separate and unique operating mindsets and lacked any significant interoperability features. The most influential factor accounting for this gradual trend toward integration was the nation's ten-year experience with Operations Northern and Southern W

Table of Contents

Cover; Preface; Contents; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; Chapter Two - A Backdrop of Apartness; Chapter Three - The Watershed of Desert Storm; Chapter Four - Post-Gulf War Navy Adjustments to New Demands; Chapter Five - First Steps Toward Integrated Strike-Warfare Training; Chapter Six - Continued Sources of Navy-Air Force Friction; Chapter Seven - A Convergence of Integration over Afghanistan; Chapter Eight - Further Convergence in Operation Iraqi Freedom; Chapter Nine - Emergent Trends in Air Force-Navy Integration

Chapter Ten - A New Synergy of Land- and Sea-Based Strike WarfareChapter Eleven - Future Challenges and Opportunities; Bibliography