CAP Learn to Lead Chapter 14 Questions and Answers Rated A+

CAP Learn to Lead Chapter 14 Questions and Answers Rated A+ What were Germany's three critical mistakes in its use of airpower, as determined by Gen Spaatz? •Inadequate armament on the bombers; •No capability for precision bombing; •Use of the fighters in close support of the bombers instead of in general support Define the term "strategic bombing" Strategic bombing may be defined as being an independent air campaign, intended to be decisive, and directed against the essential war-making capacity of the enemy Name the three principles of combat that strategic bombing takes advantage of • The principle of mass • The principle of objective • The principle of economy of force What are five lessons that the United States learned from the use of strategic air power in World War II? •The United States learned that the time given for building up weapons and planes and manpower were essential for the success in the war. •That the air power in the war had to develop its own strategy: fighting in 3D. In particular the principle of mass. •One must control the air. It is absolutely vital. •Take advantage of the enemy's mistakes. •Strategic Air Power could not have won the war alone. It needed ground troops What are the two questions of airpower theory that the Air Corps Tactical School sought to answer? •What are the vital elements of an enemy nation's power? •How can airpower sufficiently endanger them to change an opponent's behavior? What was the operational context in which the ACTS theorists developed their airpower theories? The ACTS theorists wrote to create a central role and mission for the fledgling Air Corps. After WWI the Air Service was a mess and it needed a theory to make it special and note just a tool of the ground pounders. Thus ACTS theorists posited a decisive strategic role for the precision bomber to combat this problem. What was the operational context in which Col John Warden developed his airpower theories? John Warden also wrote to fill a void in airpower theory and to counter a trend of increasing subordination to the Army. When war experience in Korea and Vietnam proved that bombing was not enough and the role of air power shifted from strategic bombing to a more tactical nature that was increasingly becoming subordinate to the Army. What is Kenneth Walker's "inviolable principle" for bombers? The bomber must only fly against "vital material targets" deep in the enemy heartland and never in Army support. To do otherwise would be to squander the bomber's power. What are the major thematic differences between ACTS theory and Col Warden's airpower theory? The major thematic difference between the theories is the addition of a new "vital center" - the leadership ring - and two new destructive mechanisms to influence that center of gravity: decapitation and parallel war. What are the three pathologies (flaws) of airpower that affect both ACTS and Col Warden's contributions? •Overreliance on metaphor in place of logical argumentation. •They both "made a fetish of quantification and prediction in war." •The "air theorists sought to develop hoary maxims that would apply to all wars, regardless of time and circumstance." What is Cyberspace? The sum total of information available electronically, the exchange of that information, and the communities which