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Aerospace operations in urban environments : exploring new concepts /
The recent spate of urban operations in Panama, Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia has motivated the Department of Defense to put considerable effort into identifying and correcting shortcomings in the United States' ability to successfully conduct urban military operations. Project AIR FORCE undertook...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Arlington, VA :
Rand,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""PREFACE""; ""PROJECT AIR FORCE""; ""FIGURES""; ""TABLES""; ""SUMMARY""; ""KEY FINDINGS""; ""THE NEED FOR IMPROVED URBAN OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES""; ""NEW CONCEPTS""; ""NEXT STEPS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""HOW LIKELY ARE URBAN OPERATIONS?""; ""THE NATURE OF URBAN MILITARY OPERATIONS""; ""From Rubble to Routine""; ""Redefining Warfare, Not Service Roles""; ""PURPOSE""; ""ORGANIZATION""; ""USING AEROSPACE POWER TO PREVENT THE URBAN FIGHT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""HOW AEROSPACE POWER CAN FORESTALL URBAN OPERATIONS""
- ""Anatomy of an Urban Military Operation""""Comparative Advantages of Aerospace Power""; ""Preclusion Strategies""; ""WHERE PRECLUSIONARY STRATEGIES MAY HAVE WORKED""; ""Al Khafji""; ""Kuwait City""; ""Southern Lebanon""; ""WHERE AEROSPACE POWER FAILED TO PREVENT URBAN COMBAT""; ""Lessons Learned""; ""The Second Chechen Battle""; ""WHEN CIRCUMSTANCES LEAVE NO CHOICE""; ""As a Tool for Joint Force Commanders""; ""The Limits of Aerospace Power in Urban Operations""; ""SUMMARY""; ""LEGAL AND POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS ON URBAN AEROSPACE OPERATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION""
- ""LEGAL CONSTRAINTS ON URBAN AEROSPACE OPERATIONS""""Reciprocal Legal Duties and the DefenderÃŒs Obligations""; ""The International Legal Challenges of Urban Environments""; ""POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS ON URBAN OPERATIONS""; ""Sensitivity to American Casualties""; ""Sensitivity to Collateral Damage and Civilian Suffering""; ""RESTRICTIVE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT AND TARGETING""; ""THE ASYMMETRY OF CONSTRAINTS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""AEROSPACE OPERATIONS AND THE URBAN PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE NATURE OF URBAN TERRAIN""; ""Urban Terrain Zones and Their Characteristics""
- ""Air Defenses on Urban Terrain""""SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT""; ""Sensor Cueing in the Urban Environment and a New Cueing Concept""; ""Target Identification/Tracking in the Urban Environment""; ""EO Sensors Versus Targets on Rooftops and in Streets""; ""EO Sensors Versus Targets Inside Buildings""; ""AERIAL WEAPON DELIVERY IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT""; ""Aerial Weapon Trajectories and the Geometry of Urban Terrain""; ""Weapon Effects and Urban Terrain""; ""AIRLIFT IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS""; ""CONCLUSIONS""
- ""New concepts for accomplishing key tasks in urban operations""""introduction""; ""stop movement of combatants, vehicles, and equipment""; ""provide rapid, high-resolution imagery for target id""; ""detect and neutralize adversary ambush positions""; ""detect and neutralize snipers""; ""monitor high-priority targets""; ""resupply isolated friendly ground forces""; ""provide close support for ground forces""; ""the role of the joint control center""; ""enabling technologies for urban aerospace operations""; ""introduction""