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... counterparts. The Canadian Army Staff College (CASC) and the RCAF Staff College differed, however in the focus of their content. While the CASC emphasized the tactical level, the RCAF Staff College focused on the nature of air power during the Second World War stressed joint and combined operations...

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... and conventional warfare. Thus, the Combined Action Program in Vietnam did not emerge directly from Marine Corps training and doctrine. Rather, the Marine Corps conceived the Combined Action Program in 1965 when commanders such as Lewis Walt began to realize that the conventional training of the previous decades...

...This chapter compares and contrasts CAPs with two of the U.S. Army's major counterinsurgency and pacification weapons that most resemble the Combined Action Program: the Green Berets and Mobile Advisory Teams. CAPs proved to be a viable alternative to William Westmoreland's war of attrition...

...This chapter analyzes how the Marines trained the village militias, the Popular Forces (PF) and, for the Americans, the frustrations involved in this task. One of the primary goals of the Combined Action Program was to bolster the effectiveness of the inexperienced and poorly trained PF who...

...) and Balikpapan (1945), it contextualizes this experience within General Douglas MacArthur's maritime strategy and the friction inherent in combined amphibious operations in this theater. The chapter highlights the evolution of the Australian Army from a force almost totally unfamiliar with the practice...

...This chapter dissects the selection and training process of the Combined Action Program, asserting that the spontaneous nature of the program coupled with the Marine Corps' general need for manpower in the war produced a selection process and training regimen riddled with loopholes and deficiencies...

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... several aspects of the role American strategic bombing played during World War II, including the Combined Bomber Offensive (CBO), and evaluates how well the underlying assumptions of HADPB withstood the harsh reality of war. Finally, the chapter assesses how air power contributed overall to the Allied...

...Tunner transformed the airlift between August 1948 and April 1949, as described in Chapter 11. He replaced C-47s with larger C-54s, able to carry three times the cargo, established a Combined Air Lift Task Force to coordinate US and British operations, and moved C-54s to newly opened airfields...

...During the Vietnam War, combined action platoons (CAPs) were the primary counterinsurgency instruments for the U.S. Marine Corps. The American contingent of each CAP consisted of approximately a dozen U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman, or medic, all of whom lived in South Vietnamese villages...