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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.
Learn how the Air Corps Tactical School, founded in 1920, taught air officers the strategy, tactics, and techniques of airpower and created the doctrine for the new service. Explore the challenges and conflicts faced by the school and its leaders, such as Maj. Thomas DeWitt Milling and the "bomber mafia".
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 sought to help its students develop professionally as Army officers and airmen. Over the years, the emphasis in the school was placed
- Eric S. Mathewson
- 2012
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
Contents Foreword iii Introduction v 1. Early Military Education 1 Development of Military Educational System 1 The Impact of World War I 3 Establishment of Schools for Air Officers 7 Air Service Field Officers' School at Langley Field 9 2.
Nov 3, 2020 · On Oct. 31, 2020, Air Command and Staff College military leaders, students and faculty celebrated Air Corps Tactical School’s centennial with cake and good cheers in remembering those who went before in carrying the torch of air power.
