This report examines the achievement of the principle of unity of effort from a narrowfocus of the command and control of U.S. jointtactical air operations in four campaigns during the period from 1942 to 1968.
It Is an acceptted doctrine of the American defense estabilishment that naval power is the most flexible of all instruments of force, one with many symbolic as well as strategic functions.
For centuries the British navy was the worlds strongest, an obvious and indispensable shield for the Island and the Empire. But now the Empire is gone, the British Isles are menaced by missiles that her warships cannot stop and the United States and the Soviet Union have replaced her as the worlds leading naval powers.
For the last couple of decades, attempts have been made to develop some general understanding, and ultimately a theory, of systems that consist of many interacting components and many hierarchical layers