Integrating Strategic and Tactical Airpower in Conventional Warfare B-52 Employment

Abstract

This paper begins with a historical review of the United States strategic airpower employment in combat from World War I through the post-Vietnam periods into the mid-1980s.It then presents Strategic Air Command's (SAC) recent initiatives to regain a viable conventional warfighting capability for the B-52 bomber. A discussion of SAC's new warfighting strategy and concept of operations is followed by the authors' views of integrating B-52 forces into the modern conventional combat arena. Addressing the attributes of the B-52 in conventional operations, this paper advocates the importance of the heavy bomber in future, integrated, conventional warfare. Keywords: Jet bomber mission profiles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA202217

Entities

People

  • Donald D. Karle Jr.
  • Julian B. Hall Jr.

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Attrition
  • Bombing
  • Combat Areas
  • Conventional Warfare
  • Instructors
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Aircraft
  • Military Organizations
  • Second World War
  • Southeast Asia
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design