1st Edition
The Half War Planning U.s. Rapid Deployment Forces To Meet A Limited Contingency 19601983
By Robert P Haffa Jr
Copyright 1984
277 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
277 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers a strategic, organizational, and logistical analysis in a historical context of the planning of conventional forces to meet a limited contingency. The central question is: Why, from 1960 to 1982, did the U.S. fail to construct a coherent limited contingency force? Analysis of a series of comparative case studies reveals that the strategic concept to the "half war," or limited... Read more
Introduction -- Force Planning for a Limited Contingency: Constancy and Change in the U.S. Strategic Concept, 1960-1980 -- Organizing for the Limited Contingency: Institutionalizing Strategies of Rapid Deployment, 1960-1980 -- Supporting the Limited Contingency: Mobility Systems for Rapid Deployment, 1960-1980 -- Force Planning for the Half War: The RDJTF as a Limited Contingency Force -- Planning for Rapidly Deployable Forces in the 1980s
Biography
Colonel Haffa is associate professor and deputy department head in political science at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
