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Creech Blue : Gen Bill Creech and the Reformation of the Tactical Air Forces, 1978-1984 by Slife, James C., 1967-; Air University (U.S.). College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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1 online resource (ix, 153 pages) : Colonel Slife chronicles the influence of the late Gen Wilbur L. "Bill" Creech, a leader, visionary, warrior, and mentor in the areas of equipment and tactics, training, organization, and leader development. His study serves both to explain the context of a turbulent time in our Air Force's history and to reveal where tomorrow's airmen may find answers to some of the difficult challenges facing them today. Colonel Slife, who addresses such controversial topics as the development of the Army's AirLand Battle doctrine and what it meant to airmen, is among the first to describe what historians will surely see in years to come as the revolutionary developments of the late 1970s/early 1980s and General Creech's central role. Creech Blue enlightens the Air Force on its strongly held convictions during that period and challenges the idea that by 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Air Force had forgotten how to wage a "strategic" air campaign and was dangerously close to plunging into a costly and lengthy war of attrition had it not been for the vision of a small cadre of thinkers on the Air Staff. In exploring the doctrine and language of the decade le

Author

Slife, James C., 1967-; Air University (U.S.). College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education

Publisher

Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.: Air University Press in collaboration with CADRE

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781585661251

Subjects

History, Science, Military