As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

The War Department took over the Secret Intelligence ( SI ) and Counter-Espionage ( X-2 ) Branches, which were then housed in a new office created for just this purpose — the Strategic Services Unit ( SSU ).

On July 30, 1918, Kilmer volunteered to accompany Major William " Wild Bill " Donovan ( later, in World War II, the founder of the Office of Strategic Services — forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency ) when Donovan's Battalion ( 1 – 165th Infantry ) was sent to lead the day's attack.

So, after 14 years under Strategic Air Command, Columbus Air Force Base rejoined Air Training Command July 1, 1969, and resumed the mission for which it was originally activated — training pilots.

Since 1942, Fairchild Air Force Base / Station has been a key part of the United States ' defense strategy — from World War II repair depot, to Strategic Air Command bomber wing during the Cold War, to Air Mobility Command air refueling wing during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT ) refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union — the Cold War superpowers — on the issue of armament control.

* SLAPPs — Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation: Coming to a Controversy Near You — Australian article, includes history of SLAPPs

* January 2000 — Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies, Institute for Defense and Security Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

*" Strategic Directions in Computational Geometry — Working Group Report " ( 1996 )

During World War II, he worked for the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) — the predecessor to the CIA — where he became head of its Secret Intelligence Branch in Europe.

; CFAS — Strategic Air Command ( Commandement des Forces Aériennes Stratégiques )

* The Western Theatre in 1971 — A Strategic and Operational Analysis by A. H. Amin-Orbat

News footage of the 1981 assassination attempt on his life is shown, and information about the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI — dubbed " Star Wars ") is included.

* The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency — A brief official history on the Central Intelligence Agency's Web site.

* 1973 — Promoted to Rear Admiral and made Deputy Director, Strategic Plans, Policy, Nuclear Systems and NSC Affairs Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

Sir Alastair Morton ( Robert Alastair Newton Morton ) ( 11 January 1938 — 1 September 2004 ) was Chief Executive of Eurotunnel and Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority and an industrialist of considerable achievements and renown.

NATO's ACE Mobile Force, Flexible Response and the Cold War ', Journal of Strategic Studies, 27: 4, p. 585 — 613

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To offset his socially moderate stances, Kemp clarified his opposition to abortion, his support of the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) and his support for a stronger military than that favored by Secretary of State George Shultz.

According to Dr. Vitalii Nikolaevich Tsygichko, a Senior Analyst at the Academy of Sciences, the author of the study, Mathematical Model of Soviet Strategic Operations on the Continental Theater, and a former member of the General Staff, military analysts discussed the idea of a " nuclear winter " ( although they did not use that exact term ) years before U. S. scientists wrote about it in the 1980s .< REF > http :// www. gwu. edu /~ nsarchiv // nukevault / ebb285 /</ REF >

The Office of Strategic Services was established by a Presidential military order issued by President Roosevelt on June 13, 1942, to collect and analyze strategic information required by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to conduct special operations not assigned to other agencies.

Subdivisions of the Sontaran military structure mentioned in the series include the Sontaran G3 Military Assessment Survey and the Grand Strategic Council, the Ninth Sontaran Battle Group, the Fifth Army Space Fleet of the Sontaran Army Space Corps, and the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet.

A top-secret White Paper, compiled by the Royal Air Force and produced for the British Government in 1959, estimated that British atomic bombers were capable of destroying key cities and military targets in the Soviet Union, with an estimated 16 million deaths in the USSR ( half of whom were estimated to be killed on impact and the rest fatally injured ) before bomber aircraft from the US Strategic Air Command reached their targets.

Aided by elements of the military, secret airfields and training camps were established, while Office of Strategic Services and Force 136 agents slipped in and out of the country.

Saarinen was recruited by Donal McLaughlin, an architectural school friend from his Yale days, to join the military service in the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).

Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in a total war with the goal of defeating an enemy nation-state by destroying its economic ability and public will to wage war rather than destroying its land or naval forces.

Strategic bombers have also been used to support major military ground operations, such as the isolation of Normandy through the bombing of transportation hubs throughout northern France in support of the D-Day invasion, or the carpet bombing of the Axis front lines west of Saint-Lô in support of Operation Cobra.

Category: Strategic Air Command military installations

Authorized to draw forces when needed from the Strategic Army Corps ( STRAC ), the Tactical Air Command, and the airlift units of the Military Air Transport Service and the military services, Strike Command had the mission " to respond swiftly and with whatever force necessary to threats against the peace in any part of the world, reinforcing unified commands or … carrying out separate contingency operations.

The IISS publishes The Military Balance, an annual assessment of nations ' military capabilities ; the Armed Conflict Database ; Survival, a journal on global politics and strategy ; Strategic Survey, the annual review of world affairs ; the Adelphi Papers series of monographs ; and Strategic Comments, online analysis of topical issues in international affairs.

* The US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute publishes several dozen papers and books yearly focusing on current and future military strategy and policy, national security, and global and regional strategic issues.

Capability development, which is often referred to as the military " strength ", is arguably one of the most complex activities known to humanity because it requires determining: Strategic, operational and tactical capability requirements to counter the identified threats ; Strategic, operational and tactical doctrines by which the acquired capabilities will be used ; identifying concepts, methods and systems involved in executing the doctrines ; creating design specifications for the manufacturers who would produce these in adequate quantity and quality for their use in combat ; purchase the concepts, methods and systems ; create a forces structure that would use the concepts, methods and systems most effectively and efficiently ; integrate these concepts, methods and systems into the force structure by providing military education, training, and practice that preferably resembles combat environment of intended use ; create military logistics systems to allow continued and uninterrupted performance of military organisations under combat conditions, including provision of health services to the personnel and maintenance for the equipment ; the services to assist recovery of wounded personnel and repair of damaged equipment ; and finally post-conflict demobilisation and disposal of war stocks surplus to peacetime requirements.

The scope of Strategic military planning can span weeks, but is more often months or even years.

Category: Strategic Air Command military installations

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

Additionally, the base is home to many significant associate units, including US Strategic Command Headquarters, the Air Force Weather Agency, the Omaha operating location of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, and many others.

To manage these units, on July 1, 1958, Strategic Air Command activated the 4228th Strategic Wing at Columbus, composed of the 492d Bomb Squadron ( 15 B-52Fs ) and 901st Air Refueling Squadron ( KC-135A tankers ), being reassigned from the 7th Bomb Wing at Carswell AFB, Texas.

On 18 December 1953, Great Falls AFB was transferred from Military Air Transport Service to Strategic Air Command ( SAC ), although MATS units remained at the base for several years.

Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) initially had units assigned to Minot AFB in 1958 for air refueling support.

In 1958, all base units came under the command of the 821st Strategic Aerospace Division, headquartered at Ellsworth.

In July 1962, SAC had effectively rendered it obsolete by activating the 66th Strategic Missile Squadron, the first of three such units slated to operate 150 LGM-30B Minuteman I ICBMs under the 44 SMW.

On 31 July 1990, SAC replaced the 12th Air Division with the Strategic Warfare Center ( SWC ), which provided operational command and administrative control over Ellsworth's subordinate units.

After the Strategic Rail Authority decided that the St Pancras to Leeds service could no longer be justified it appeared that the nine-carriage units may have been used elsewhere.

The Strategic Air Command's 1st Combat Evaluation RBS " Express " did deploy from Barksdale Air Force Base with radar bomb scoring units mounted on military railroad cars with supporting equipment, to score simulated thermonuclear bombing of cities in the continental United States.

The RB-29s were assigned to the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, which like other SAC units played a crucial role during the Korean War.

Beginning in February 1951, mobilized units were assigned to Air Defense Command ( ADC ), Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) and Tactical Air Command ( SAC ), replacing or augmenting active-duty units.

Strategic analysts say the withdrawal has no military significance since three of the six units are air-defense regiments and the Afghan resistance has no air capability.

Strategic resources are resources required to train certain units or construct certain city improvements or wonders.

Strategic Warfare units are now cheaper and more plentiful, and combat now takes place each turn ( only a quarter of them being used each turn, with a roll to determine how many BRP losses strategic warfare inflicts as a percentage of the maximum possible ), with SR being reduced for countries which suffer strategic warfare losses ( this particularly affect Britain in the mid-game ).

Strategic air power is the bombing of enemy resources ( by bombers ); tactical air power is the battle for control of the air space ( by fighters ); close air support is the direct support of ground units ; naval aviation refers especially to the use of aircraft carriers.

Before the establishing of the Strategic Support Branch in 2001, the ISA needed the permission of the CIA to conducts its operations which sometimes caused it to be less effective in its support of JSOC's primary units.

In 1966 an order of battle for the force showed units spread across most of the United States, from the 6th Strategic Aerospace Wing at Walker AFB in New Mexico, to the 11th Strategic Aerospace Wing at Altus AFB, OK., to the 97th Bombardment Wing at Blytheville AFB, Arkansas.

As a result, the unit assumed command over all Tactical Air Command-gained and Strategic Air Command-gained Air Force Reserve units regardless of geographic location.