Evolution in the post-Cold War Air Force: Technology, doctrine, and bureaucratic politics

US Military Innovation since the Cold War: Creation without Destruction

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 100-118

  Weiner, Sanford L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84919566997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203878651     Document Type: Chapter

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