Interesting and short slide show on historical why air forces failed...or eventually succeeded. Below is the cover note that accompanied the link when I got it:
Just passed FYI. V/R, Spike
Thursday, June 26, 2008
AFA Members, Congressional staffers, Civic Leaders, and DOCA members, last week I promised you a piece on Why Air Forces Fail. This piece is taken from a book which is on Gen Moseley's reading list entitled: Why Air Forces Fail edited by Robin Higham and Stephen Harris. We have also taken the liberty of using some information from The Influence of Airpower Upon History by Walter Boyne.
To save you time ... and interest you in these books, we drew heavily from both, and the slide briefing is a summary of both. Take a minute to review the slides - they are dynamite. As you read and digest them, think to our own future ... and see how many of these lessons can and should be applied to our future. Then ... on the last slide of the briefing, we have endeavored to look at the US Air Force - as it looks in 2008, then project what lessons a "failure" might look like circa 2025. If you look at only one slide of this 18 slide briefing, look at the last one.
You can find the briefing at:
http://www.afa.org/EdOp/AF_Failure.pdf
Let me know what you think.
Please feel free to use this briefing with civic groups (Rotary, Lions, etc), with the press, and be sure to forward the link to your friends and family.
Best
Mike
Michael M. Dunn
President/CEO Air Force Assn.
Just passed FYI. V/R, Spike