Conrad C Crane
Biographic Data
| ID | 1227445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Conrad C Crane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Conrad C |
| FAMILY NAME | Crane |
| SIGNATURE | CRANE C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Military Academy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From the Acting Editor in Chief
Welcome to the Spring 2023 demi-issue of Parameters. Released approximately one month before the full issue of the journal, the demi-issue addresses unfolding current events and issues critical to our readership, generates interest in the forthcoming full issue by previewing upcoming content, and tackles the big questions being asked today in the fields of military strategy and defense policy. This Spring 2023 demi-issue focuses on Afghanistan an…
From the Acting Editor in Chief
Welcome to the Autumn 2023 demi-issue of Parameters. Released approximately one month before the full issue of the journal, the demi-issue addresses unfolding current events and topics critical to our readership, previews upcoming content for the forthcoming full issue, and tackles the big questions being asked today in the fields of military strategy and defense policy. This demi-issue includes two In Focus special commentaries—one on the US Arm…
From the Acting Editor in Chief
Welcome to the Summer 2023 demi-issue of Parameters. Released approximately one month before the full issue of the journal, the demi-issue addresses unfolding current events and issues critical to our readership, generates interest in the forthcoming full issue by previewing upcoming content, and tackles the big questions being asked today in the fields of military strategy and defense policy. This Summer 2023 demi-issue includes an In Focus spec…
From the Acting Editor in Chief
Welcome to the Summer 2023 issue of Parameters. The issue includes two In Focus special commentaries. a Taiwan forum, a Clausewitz and Strategy forum, a Historical Studies forum, and the SRAD Director’s Corner
From the Acting Editor in Chief
From the Acting Editor in Chief
From the Acting Editor in Chief
From the Acting Editor in Chief
Matthew Ridgway and the Value of Persistent Dissent
Army General Matthew Ridgway’s actions throughout his career provide a valuable example of the appropriate time and place for serious dissent by military leaders. Ridgway demonstrated the importance of selectively and pragmatically expressing open
American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953
Matthew Ridgway and the Battle of the Bulge
The Lure of Strike
Beware of Boldness
At a counterterrorism conference in September 2004, then-Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers stated that key question senior officials needed to ask about their conduct of Global War on Terrorism was, Are we being as bold and innovative as we need to be? (1) Army Field Manual 7.0, Training Force, states that goals of operational deployments and major training opportunities are to enhance unit readiness and produce bold, inn…
Reconstructing Iraq
During the latter half of the 20th century, U.S. military leaders and planners focused heavily on winning wars, and not so much on the peacekeeping or nation-building that comes afterwards. But national objectives can often be accomplished only after the fighting has ceased. With the winds of war swirling around Iraq, it is time to begin planning for the post-conflict reconstruction of that state. This monograph presents some historical insights …
American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953
Journal Article American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950–1953. By Conrad C. Crane. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. x, 252 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0991-1.) Get access Wayne Thompson Wayne Thompson Air Force History Support Office, Boiling Air Force Base, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Page 1565, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674872…
American Air Power Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953
The Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, but far from the type of conflict it expected or wanted to fight. As the first air war of the nuclear age, it posed a major challenge to the service to define and successfully carry out its mission by stretching the constraints of limited war while avoiding the excesses of total war. Conrad Crane analyzes both the successes and failures of the air force in Korea, o…
To avert impending disaster
Though historians continue to argue about the role of American nuclear threats in producing an armistice in the Korean War, by 1953 the United States was moving closer to actually escalating the war with the employment of atomic bombs. While military studies and unsatisfactory exercises during the first two years of the conflict had relegated such weapons to a role just as a last resort to prevent a catastrophe, frustration with stalemated peace …
The Air Campaign
Much has been made about the planning for and execution of the aerial dimension of the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. A major debate both within and outside of the US Air Force has been associated with the influence of Col John Warden. He was then a member of the Air Staff in the Pentagon and theoretically without an assigned function in theater-level campaign planning. Arguments that the Gulf War was a manifestation of a revolution in military affa…
Raiding the Beggar's Pantry
The Paths of Heaven
Airpower is not widely understood. Even though it has come to play an increasingly important role in both peace and war, the basic concepts that define and govern airpower remain obscure to many people, even to professional military officers. This fact is largely due to fundamental differences of opinion as to whether or not the aircraft has altered the strategies of war or merely its tactics. If the former, then one can see airpower as a revolut…
Lichfield
Journal Article Lichfield: The U.S. Army on Trial. By Jack Gieck. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 1997. xxii, 277 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 1-884836-26-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-884836-27-5.) Get access Conrad C. Crane Conrad C. Crane United States Military Academy West Point, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1567–1568, https://doi.…
From People's War to People's Rule
Bombs, Cities, and Civilians
Journal Article Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II. By Conrad C. Crane. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. xii, 208 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0574-6) Get access Warren A. Trest Warren A. Trest Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pag…
Joint Air Operations
Journal Article Joint Air Operations: Pursuit of Unity in Command and Control, 1942–1991. By James A. Winnefeld and Dana J. Johnson. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993. xxviii, 219 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55750-926-3.) Get access Conrad C. Crane Conrad C. Crane United States Military Academy, West Point, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 199…
Bombs, Cities, and Civilians
To avert impending disaster
Though historians continue to argue about the role of American nuclear threats in producing an armistice in the Korean War, by 1953 the United States was moving closer to actually escalating the war with the employment of atomic bombs. While military studies and unsatisfactory exercises during the first two years of the conflict had relegated such weapons to a role just as a last resort to prevent a catastrophe, frustration with stalemated peace …
Joint Air Operations
Journal Article Joint Air Operations: Pursuit of Unity in Command and Control, 1942–1991. By James A. Winnefeld and Dana J. Johnson. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993. xxviii, 219 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55750-926-3.) Get access Conrad C. Crane Conrad C. Crane United States Military Academy, West Point, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 199…
Evolution of U.S. Strategic Bombing of Urban Areas
Additional informationNotes on contributorsConrad C. CraneThe author holds the rank of Major in the US. Army and is the Military Historian for the Combined Arms and Tactics Department of the US. Army Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Bliss, Texas. He just completed a tour as an Assistant Professor of History at the US. Military Academy at West Point
Bombs, Cities, and Civilians
Bombs, Cities, and Civilians
Journal Article Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II. By Conrad C. Crane. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. xii, 208 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0574-6) Get access Warren A. Trest Warren A. Trest Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pag…
Joint Air Operations
Journal Article Joint Air Operations: Pursuit of Unity in Command and Control, 1942–1991. By James A. Winnefeld and Dana J. Johnson. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993. xxviii, 219 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55750-926-3.) Get access Conrad C. Crane Conrad C. Crane United States Military Academy, West Point, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 199…
From People's War to People's Rule
The Paths of Heaven
Airpower is not widely understood. Even though it has come to play an increasingly important role in both peace and war, the basic concepts that define and govern airpower remain obscure to many people, even to professional military officers. This fact is largely due to fundamental differences of opinion as to whether or not the aircraft has altered the strategies of war or merely its tactics. If the former, then one can see airpower as a revolut…
Lichfield
Journal Article Lichfield: The U.S. Army on Trial. By Jack Gieck. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 1997. xxii, 277 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 1-884836-26-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-884836-27-5.) Get access Conrad C. Crane Conrad C. Crane United States Military Academy West Point, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1567–1568, https://doi.…
The Air Campaign
Much has been made about the planning for and execution of the aerial dimension of the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. A major debate both within and outside of the US Air Force has been associated with the influence of Col John Warden. He was then a member of the Air Staff in the Pentagon and theoretically without an assigned function in theater-level campaign planning. Arguments that the Gulf War was a manifestation of a revolution in military affa…
Raiding the Beggar's Pantry
American Air Power Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953
The Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, but far from the type of conflict it expected or wanted to fight. As the first air war of the nuclear age, it posed a major challenge to the service to define and successfully carry out its mission by stretching the constraints of limited war while avoiding the excesses of total war. Conrad Crane analyzes both the successes and failures of the air force in Korea, o…
To avert impending disaster
Though historians continue to argue about the role of American nuclear threats in producing an armistice in the Korean War, by 1953 the United States was moving closer to actually escalating the war with the employment of atomic bombs. While military studies and unsatisfactory exercises during the first two years of the conflict had relegated such weapons to a role just as a last resort to prevent a catastrophe, frustration with stalemated peace …
American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953
Journal Article American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950–1953. By Conrad C. Crane. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. x, 252 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0991-1.) Get access Wayne Thompson Wayne Thompson Air Force History Support Office, Boiling Air Force Base, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Page 1565, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674872…
Reconstructing Iraq
During the latter half of the 20th century, U.S. military leaders and planners focused heavily on winning wars, and not so much on the peacekeeping or nation-building that comes afterwards. But national objectives can often be accomplished only after the fighting has ceased. With the winds of war swirling around Iraq, it is time to begin planning for the post-conflict reconstruction of that state. This monograph presents some historical insights …
Beware of Boldness
At a counterterrorism conference in September 2004, then-Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers stated that key question senior officials needed to ask about their conduct of Global War on Terrorism was, Are we being as bold and innovative as we need to be? (1) Army Field Manual 7.0, Training Force, states that goals of operational deployments and major training opportunities are to enhance unit readiness and produce bold, inn…
The Lure of Strike
Matthew Ridgway and the Battle of the Bulge
American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953
Matthew Ridgway and the Value of Persistent Dissent
Army General Matthew Ridgway’s actions throughout his career provide a valuable example of the appropriate time and place for serious dissent by military leaders. Ridgway demonstrated the importance of selectively and pragmatically expressing open
From the Acting Editor in Chief
From the Acting Editor in Chief
From the Acting Editor in Chief
Welcome to the Spring 2023 demi-issue of Parameters. Released approximately one month before the full issue of the journal, the demi-issue addresses unfolding current events and issues critical to our readership, generates interest in the forthcoming full issue by previewing upcoming content, and tackles the big questions being asked today in the fields of military strategy and defense policy. This Spring 2023 demi-issue focuses on Afghanistan an…
From the Acting Editor in Chief
Welcome to the Autumn 2023 demi-issue of Parameters. Released approximately one month before the full issue of the journal, the demi-issue addresses unfolding current events and topics critical to our readership, previews upcoming content for the forthcoming full issue, and tackles the big questions being asked today in the fields of military strategy and defense policy. This demi-issue includes two In Focus special commentaries—one on the US Arm…
From the Acting Editor in Chief
Welcome to the Summer 2023 demi-issue of Parameters. Released approximately one month before the full issue of the journal, the demi-issue addresses unfolding current events and issues critical to our readership, generates interest in the forthcoming full issue by previewing upcoming content, and tackles the big questions being asked today in the fields of military strategy and defense policy. This Summer 2023 demi-issue includes an In Focus spec…
From the Acting Editor in Chief
Welcome to the Summer 2023 issue of Parameters. The issue includes two In Focus special commentaries. a Taiwan forum, a Clausewitz and Strategy forum, a Historical Studies forum, and the SRAD Director’s Corner
From the Acting Editor in Chief
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