Airpower capability and military technology have created a vision of airpower that focuses on the lethality of weaponry instead of the use of that weaponry as a political tool. Unfortunately, such a lethality-focused force optimized to fight interstate conflicts, by definition, ensures that this force is sub-optimal for waging wars at the sub-state level. Small wars are conflicts where the political and diplomatic context, and not the military disposition of the combatants, is usually the determining factor. Following World War II there emerged an era of insurgencies and limited wars of territorial dispute. These small wars required new operational and tactical innovations involving the use of airpower, as the very nature of these wars differed from conventional conflict towards which most of aviation was geared. This thesis analyzes six historical cases involving the use of airpower across a wide spectrum of small wars through the lens of an analytical framework for countering insurgencies. While the typologies of no two conflicts are identical, and the application of airpower equally varied, this work provides fundamental assertions and implications regarding the proper use of airpower for waging war at this level. / US Air Force (USAF) author.

This thesis establishes an analytical framework for identifying and discussing strategic factors considered when developing the Hungarian Special Forces (HUNSF) as a new "niche" capability of the Hungarian Defense Forces (HDF). Although the findings have broad application, focus is on the Hungarian Special Forces unit. Key questions are how will factors such as the strategic environment, changes in the nature of war and characteristics of potential adversaries affect the development of a conceptual framework for the Hungarian Special Forces? Should unconventional warfare (which is a capability gap in the HDF at present) be an official task for the future Hungarian military forces and specifically a primary task for the HUNSF? Central to this study are factors found in the strategic environment, such as Hungary's affiliation with NATO and the EU. The thesis concentrates on defining the tasks for HUNSF, and based on these tasks, develops an organizational framework for the HUNSF capability. This framework includes training and command and control. The constantly changing security environment will also call for adjustments to the concept of HUNSF in the future; therefore, a vision for the HUNSF is incorporated into the thesis to provide flexibility and guidance for capability development in the future. A key finding of the thesis is that HUNSF has the potential to contribute to the fight against the many new security challenges and achieve many of the objectives posited in existing military transformation strategies, most importantly an unconventional warfare capability.

Project report (M. Eng.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-73). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1995. / "December 1995." Thesis advisor(s): Gordon H. McCormick. Bibliography: p. 219-227. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Waikato. / Title taken from title screen (viewed October 5, 2007). Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waikato, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 443-488) Also available via the World Wide Web.

Orientador: Valdir Gouveia Garcia / Resumo: O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar, histológicamente e biometricamente, a influência da associação de diferentes comprimentos de onda de lasers em baixa intensidade, sobre o processo de reparo em feridas cutâneas abertas provocadas no dorso de ratos. Foram utilizados 72 ratos, os quais foram divididos em 3 grupos com 24 animais cada, sendo: Grupo I - controle (sem tratamento); Grupo II (tratamento com laser 685 nm) e grupo III (tratamento com laser 685 seguido do laser 780 nm na mesma sessão). O laser foi utilizado de modo contínuo e em contato de forma pontual, ponteiras de 50 mW, durante 80 s, nas feridas do grupo II e 40 s (laser 685 nm ) mais 40 segundos (laser 780 nm) nas do grupo III, totalizando 4 J de energia e densidade energética de 200 J/cm2 em ambos os grupos. O diâmetro das feridas foram medidas em 0 h, 3, 7 e 14 d de pós-operatório e, os dados foram submetidos à análise estatística. Nos intervalos de 3, 7 e 14 d, 8 animais de cada grupo foram sacrificados e as peças foram submetidas a processamento histológico e coradas pela técnica da hematoxilina e eosina e tricrômico de Massom. Concluiu-se: 1) Grupo II e III evidenciaram resultados histológicos mais diferenciados que Grupo I; 2) Grupo III demonstrou reparação mais diferenciada que o Grupo I e o Grupo II; 3) do ponto de vista biométrico, o maior grau de contração foi observado nas feridas do Grupo III, seguido das do grupo II e I, no período de 14 dias. / Abstract: This investigation aimed to study, histologically, the influence of association of different wave-length of low intensity laser on the healing process in cutaneous wound provoked at the dorsum of rats. Seventy-two rats, 3 groups of 24 animals each, were used, namely: Group I - control (without treatment); Group II (treatment with laser of 685 nm) and Group III (treatment with laser of 685 nm associated with laser of 780 nm in the same session). In Group II, the laser was applied continuously with a point of contact of 50 mW during 80 s. In Group III, the laser of 685 nm was applied and, followed with laser of 780 nm for 40 s in each application. A total of 4 J of energy and 200 J/cm2 of energetic density were applied in both groups. The diameter of the wound was measured at baseline, 3, 7 and 14 post-operative days and the results were submitted to statistical analysis. At intervals of 3, 7 and 14 days, 8 animals of each group were sacrificed and the pieces were submitted to histological processing and were stained by hematoxiline and eosine and Massom's tricromic techniques. It was concluded that: 1) Group II and III showed histological results statistically different from Group I; 2) Group III demonstrated a statistically differentiated healing in comparison to Group I and II; 3) at the point of view of biometrics, the greatest degree of contraction was observed in Group III, followed by Group II and I, at the period of 14 days. / Mestre