A1 Flashcards
In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew the dictator of ____ and instituted a socialist dictatorship.
Cuba (Hundreds of thousands of Cubans fled, many to the U.S.)
The CIA planned the 1961 invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in hopes that the Cuban people would overthrow Castro. Who were used as troops?
Cuban exiles (They suffered a crushing defeat)
In 1962, the Soviet Union and Cubans began to build what in Cuba?
Intermediate - and medium - range ballistic missile complexes.
How many Soviet construction of missile complexes in Cuba confirmed?
Through Air Force reconnaissance flights. (First with high altitude U-2 aircraft, followed by low-level RF-101s and RB-66s)
While Strategic Air Command and Tactical Air Command prepared for a possible invasion of and was with Cuba, what did President Kennedy do to neutralize the Cuban Missile Crisis?
He imposed a naval blockade to prevent any more material from reaching Cuba and negotiated with Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev to remove the missiles.
When Cuban air defenses shot down a U-2 piloted by Maj Rudolf Anderson, what did the joint chiefs of Staff recommend?
An immediate air strike against Cuba. (President Kennedy decided to wait).
The US agreed not to invade Cuba in exchange for removal of Soviet missiles from the island. What did the US also secretly agree to do?
Remove US missiles from Turkey.
The Cuban missile crises brought the world dangerously close to nuclear war, but the strategic and tactical power of the USAF (coupled with the will and ability to use it) helped deter it. True/False
True
In what year did President Nixon end the draft in favor of an all-voluntary military?
1973
By 1975, the Air Force’s combat training, now more realistic and dangerous had evolved into Red Fag. True/false
True
Name the highly accomplished, innovative genius who founded Red Flag.
Col Richard “Moody” Suter
List two post-Vietnam technological improvements and the aircraft that exemplified them.
- highly maneuverable dogfighting aircraft armed with missiles and cannon (F-15 eagle and f-16 fighting falcom)
- detection avoidance (f-117 nighthawk stealth fighter.)
what drove the air force to develop stealth technology such as special paints, materials and designs to reduce or eliminate a/c radar, thermal and electronic signatures
the danger posed by radar guided anti-a/c artillery and surface-to-air missiles in Vietnam
Precision technologies changed aF doctrine from its focus on strategic bombing to ____ bombing with no collateral damag
Pinpoint
Why did the Air Force and Army update the airland battle tacticle doctrine published in field manual 100-5
to overcome numerically superior warsaw pact forces
which a/c was procured to make deep air attacks on enemy armies to isolate them on the battlefield conduct battlefield air interdiction to prevent enemy reinforcements from reaching the front disrupt the movement of secondary forces to the front and provide close air support to army ground forces
The A-10 Thunderbolt II
what operation in April 1980 led to disaster at the desert one refueling site?
Operation Rice Bowl
In what decade did the AF test new ideas and technologies in crisis support missions
the 1980’s
US Forces rescued American students and restored order to grenanda in October 1983 during operation Urgeng Rury. What problems were discovered during the operation
problems with command, control, planning and intraservice coordination
in April 1986, President reagan mobilized england based f-111 to strike libya during operation ___ exposing ongoing target identification and intelligence difficulties punctuated by inaccurate bombing
Operation eldorado canyon
Operation just cause in 1989 tested air operations in Panama What a/c debuted during the operation
The F-117 Nighthawk
whose flexible-response nuclear war doctrine of the early 1960s lacked the technology to match its vision of adapting to meet cold war crises
President kennedys
