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The Air Corps Tactical School, also known as ACTS and "the Tactical School", was a military professional development school for officers of the United States Army Air Service and United States Army Air Corps, the first such school in the world.
In the 1930s the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, was the nurturing ground for American air doctrine. Those who studied and taught there were the same individuals who prepared America for war, and then led its airmen into combat.
the Air Corps Tactical School to produce air officers trained in the use of airpower to support ground troops. The airmen at ACTS, instead, developed a doctrine that envisioned strategic bombing to paralyze an enemy’s industrial infrastructure and thus eliminate his war-making ca-pacity. It was not a readily accepted doc-trine.
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The Air Corps Tactical School sought to help its students develop professionally as Army officers and airmen. Over the years, the emphasis in the school was placed increasingly on air power studies. The cornerstone to the air power curriculum was the Air Force course—it was the one course designed to promote air power, its theories and
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that it was the Air Corps Tactical School [ACTS) that bridged the gap between Mitchell's foundation and the doc-trinal and force structure establishment that emerged frcm World War II. The primory objective of this study will be to examine the role of the ACTS in accomplishing this feat. To accomplish this purpose, it will be necessary to examine
10 de jul. de 2019 · Since the 1990s, the only real source on the school and its teachings was Robert Finney’s History of the Air Corps Tactical School 1920–1940. Now, Phil Haun has brought together the as-given lectures into one place, opening a new path of study and understanding for historians.
Targeting Science. By 1930 the primacy of bombar dment was estab lished at the Air Corps Tactical School.66 However, bombardment was pri marily limited to targets whose destruction would impede military opera tions. This began to change in 1933 with the work of then-Major W ilson.
