Date of Award

9-1991

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

First Advisor

Donald C. McNeeley, Lieutenant Commander, USN

Abstract

This study set out to determine if the United States Air Force strategic defense doctrine requires changing. The researcher applied contextual content analysis to selected foreign policy statements taken from Presidential State of the Union addresses to determine if past doctrine and strategy changes were evidenced by the context and emphasis scores generated by the Minnesota Contextual Content Analysis (MCCA) software package used for this study. Use of the student's t-test showed differences in mean scores between years with no strategy or doctrinal changes and those in which such changes are documented. These differences in means indicate changes in attitude, which strongly affect doctrine and strategy determination. After showing that these changes in scores related to documented changes in doctrine and strategy, the researcher looked at the scores from 1990 to determine if a change is once again in order. The scores for the year 1990 do indeed demonstrate a need to change the doctrine and strategy. The correlation in scores cannot, however, determine the specific changes that must be made.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-GLM-LSM-91S-55

DTIC Accession Number

ADA246874

Comments

The author's Vita page is omitted.

Presented to the Faculty of the School of Systems and Logistics of the Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science

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