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America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 George C. Herring Why Viet Nam?: Prelude to America's Albatross Archimedes L. A. Patti

01 May 1982-Pacific Historical Review-Vol. 51, Iss: 2, pp 235-236
About: This article is published in Pacific Historical Review.The article was published on 1982-05-01. It has received 103 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Albatross.
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TL;DR: This paper attempted to gain insight into the power of visual images in political and news elites' claims about the influence of images on the political process, but they found no evidence of such effects.
Abstract: Claims by political and news elites about the influence of visual images are far more common than actual evidence of such effects. This research attempts to gain insight into the ‘power’ of visual ...

191 citations


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  • ...Similarly, political scientist George Herring (1986) argues: Public opinion polls make abundantly clear . . . that a majority of Americans found the anti-war movement, particularly its radical and ‘hippie’ elements, more obnoxious than the war itself....

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  • ...Responses were as follows: John F. Kennedy (M = 4.06, SD .98); Lyndon Johnson (M = 3.06, SD .81); Richard Nixon (M = 2.20, SD 1.00); Gerald Ford (M = 3.12, SD .56); Jimmy Carter (M = 3.12, SD .90); Ronald Reagan (M = 3.42, SD 1.18); George Bush (M = 3.17, SD 1.01); and Bill Clinton (M = 3.27, SD 1.20)....

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  • ...[Presidents included were John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton] • Response options: 1 = History suggests/will suggest that the President was bad for the nation to 7 = History suggests/will suggest that the President was good for the nation General optimism about the future Please rate your level of agreement with the following statements....

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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the DISSERTATION of the disassembling process of disassemblement of a set of objects, and present a method for their disassembly.
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TL;DR: The Military Intervention by Powerful States (MIPS) project as discussed by the authors developed a rigorous, generalizable measure of the effectiveness of military force as a policy instrument and applied the measure to code the outcomes of all military interventions conducted by five major powers since the termination of World War II.
Abstract: The Military Intervention by Powerful States (MIPS) project develops a rigorous, generalizable measure of the effectiveness of military force as a policy instrument and applies the measure to code the outcomes of all military interventions conducted by five major powers since the termination of World War II. The MIPS dataset provides detailed data on US, British, Chinese, French, and Russian uses of military force against both state and non-state targets between 1946 and 2003. In particular, this project focuses on the political objectives strong states pursue through the use of force, the human and material cost of their military operations, and measures of intervention outcomes relative to the intervening states’ objectives. The dataset also includes extensive data on factors commonly hypothesized to be associated with war outcomes, such as the nature of the target, the type of force used by the intervening state, and military aid and assistance provided to each side.

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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the evolution of command and control of air power through operations Desert Storm, Allied Force, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom and compare its practice with classic theories established by Huntington, Cohen, Van Creveld, and Air Force doctrine.
Abstract: : What impact has the Information Age had on the Air Force's doctrinal tenet of centralized control and decentralized execution? This thesis traces the evolution of command and control of air power through operations Desert Storm, Allied Force, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom and compares its practice with classic theories established by Huntington, Cohen, Van Creveld, and Air Force doctrine. In the absence of a peer superpower in the 1990s, U.S. decision makers often resorted to the use of detailed constraints to gain direct influence on military operations. The more detailed the constraints from the strategic level, the closer the theater military commander held authority for planning air strikes, and the less proactive the air component was in coordinating with other components. The Air Force developed the Air Operations Center (AOC) to put together battlespace information. It is not yet possible to do this at lower levels, so the AOC has become dominant in controlling air operations. Initially resistant to get involved in ongoing missions, commanders found the AOC was needed to accomplish time-sensitive targeting missions. But the insertion of the AOC into ongoing operations also led to a change in the distribution of tasks. Whereas before the aircrew performed the whole kill chain sequence, now it often performed only the end-game tasks. This redistribution increases the potential for system accidents because people tend to drift from procedures during slack times and are more likely to be unprepared when the system becomes tightly coupled. Information, telecommunications, sensor, and weapons technologies have altered the way these humans perform their jobs, and the jobs themselves, but commanders still need to cultivate a learning organization. Uncertainty and the coupling of diverse organizations still require that they balance empowerment with accountability by developing depth in the command relationships among their subordinates.

54 citations