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Requirements for Logistical Air Support of Counterinsurgency Operations
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The traditional service role of providing equipment for the use of U. S. forces world-wide is being expanded to include the providing of more suitable and effective weapons and equipment for employment by local forces for free world nations which are threatened by or experiencing insurgency or other forms of conflict in remote areas. Aircraft equipment and systems employed in counterinsurgency actions up to this time have been almost exclusively hardware available in the U. S. inventory and for the most part obsolescent or surplus to U. S. needs. A systems approach is just beginning to be taken in assessment of future insurgency threats, actions, and environments; analysis of counterinsurgency requirements to counter such threats; and determination of preferred technical characteristics of potential counterinsurgency systems. Air transportation of men and materials has the important advantage of quick reaction so important in COIN operations, as well as a unique capability in underdeveloped areas where surface transportation is both vulnerable and inefficient.
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Dennehy, R., "Requirements for Logistical Air Support of Counterinsurgency Operations," SAE Technical Paper 650237, 1965, https://doi.org/10.4271/650237.Also In
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- Counterinsurgency Operation Course Lectures, USAF Special Air Warfare Center 1964
- Futrell Robert F. “The Role of Military Civic Action in the Development of the U.S.,” Aerospace Studies Institute 1964
- Vigneras Marcel “Impact of Guerrilla Action on Logistics in Limited War,” May 1961 Study 22.7, AD 325785 RAC-SP-172
- Baldwin Ben et al. “Army Requirements for Intra theater Airlift,” Research Analysis Corporation, TP-78 July 1963
- RAND Symposium “Role of Airpower in Counterinsurgency and Unconventional Warfare,” January 14-18 1963 and summarized in the following RAND Reports: RM-3651-PR, RM-3652-PR, RM-3653-PR, RM-3654-PR, RM-3655-PR, and RM-3656-PRa