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SYSTEMS, from 3
industrial war because it used the fruits of the Industrial Revolu- Army Air Forces proved this doctrine in Europe, flying past create a vast landscape of targets that must be eliminated if World
tion to good advantage. Trains, mass production, and even air enemy lines to deliver destruction to Germany’s rail yards, oil War III is to be pursued. SLBMs are the final threat, unseen,
forces were used to excellent effect by both sides. The more refineries, and ball bearing plants. This severely weakened their undetectable, and therefore invulnerable.
industrialized North was the victor. Not only did Evans’ mill lead ability to push back against the D-Day Invasion. Von Clausewitz’ We have, in very few words, spanned the days from 1790
to mass production factories for important war items like bullets “On War” is required reading for any up and coming military to 2020. We visited Evans’ Flour Mill, the battlefields of the
and uniforms, but both new and modern and older mills played strategist, it explains that the Army must hit the enemy’s “center American Civil War, the Great War, and the Spanish Civil War.
key roles in the conflict. When the various mills were not used of gravity” to win. You can read more about this in “The Devel- We watched our nation prove its strategic bombardment doctrine
as targets they were used as meeting places convenient to the opment of Air Doctrine in the Army Air Arm 1917-1941” based and then pivot to protect our nation using nuclear deterrence.
current battle. Modern mass production factories provide rifled on interviews with aviation giants Hap Arnold, Claire Chennault, All the while, the systems became more pervasive, longer-lived,
bullets, medical supplies, clothing and much more to each army. Giulio Douhet, Billy Mitchell, Benjamin Foulois and others. It and complex.
The Civil War had air forces? Yes. Both sides developed bal- can be found on Amazon.com. I was born in 1952 and spent my career as a Cold War Warrior.
loons to spy over enemy lines, sending intel down the tether using During the course of World War II, incredible American leaders Here’s some additional homework for you, especially if you are
the modern telegraph. A pleasant afternoon can be spent looking such as Gen. Curtis LeMay, translated our strategic bombardment a younger reader.
up the exploits of the North’s Professor Thaddeus Lowe and his doctrine into practical use.
lovely wife, the Parisian actress Leontine Lowe. The Battle of By the end of the war, it culminated in one aircraft, one bomb, Today, in 2020, as the world continues its laudable downward
Gaines Mill was the first Civil War battle where both sides used one city. Executing this plan once and then twice forced Japan’s trend of eliminating all nuclear weapons, you need to assess the
observation balloons. This is where the Confederates used their surrender; but it also ushered in the post-war period, where ev- unchanged threat, emerging threats, and the new technologies to
famous “silk dress” balloon. You can start with a “google search” eryone (some sooner than others) began to realize that our vast see if you can find a better solution than mutually assured destruc-
for “Balloons of the Civil War,” Lt. Cmdr. Steven D. Culpep- oceans and frozen north pole were no longer barriers to attack tion. See the movie, Dr. Strangelove.
per’s master’s thesis for the US Army Command and General against the United States. How could we defend against a Russia, Also, today, our young space aces need to consider, like our
Staff College. for instance, that had all their World War II bomber aircraft, were young pilots of the 1930s, what should our U.S. Space Forces
As the Industrial Revolution ground on, it produced more building more, and were creating their own atomic bombs? Re- Space Doctrine will be? Will our future industrial wars follow the
complex systems, many of which were highly efficient killing maining sceptics were soon won over with the launch of Sputnik. pattern of the American Civil War and World War II and target
machines. For instance, the machine gun was the main (although Couldn’t that satellite have easily been a bomb?! Of course, the our factory floors in space?
not the only) reason trenches were needed in World War I and the Sputnik satellite was much lighter than a warhead, but if anyone The final question for today is whether we can all become
front lines became stalemates of mass slaughter. Again, balloons had that kind of engineering background to understand that, then experts in sustaining all these complex systems that are appear-
were used for recon, but they had a new enemy, heavier-than-air they also understood The Bomb atop a missile was only a few ing around us daily and living longer and longer lives? You can
aero machines that would shoot them out of the sky. Try looking months away. find some answers and more questions in my paper: “The Rise
up the “Arizona Balloon Buster,” Frank Luke. The best answer we could muster to this threat was to mount of Long-lived Complex Systems.”
A few years later, Pablo Picasso immortalized the Spanish Civil a threat of our own.
War air attack on the town of Guernica. Our Sea Launched Ballistic Missiles, Intercontinental Ballistic Editor’s note: Charlie Vono is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel,
In the 1930s, our fledgling Army pilots took all this in, com- Missiles and manned bombers are on the alert to respond to any retired astronautical engineer, and current AIAA distinguished
bined it with Prussian Gen. Carl Von Clausewitz, and produced threat. Therefore, a threat is much less likely to occur. Bombers lecturer. The presentations and papers mentioned here can be
our country’s first strategic bombardment doctrine. The U.S. can be moved to make a statement and recalled as needed. ICBMs found at charlesvono.com/Presentations and Publications.

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