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Air power history : turning points from Kitty Hawk to Kosovo / edited by Sebastian Cox and Peter Gray with an introduction by Richard Overy.

Title
Air power history : turning points from Kitty Hawk to Kosovo / edited by Sebastian Cox and Peter Gray with an introduction by Richard Overy.
Publication
London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Cox, Sebastian.
  • Gray, Peter W.
Description
xix, 362 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Cass series--studies in air power, 1368-5597 ; 13
Uniform Title
Cass series--studies in air power 13.
Subject
  • Air power > History
  • Air warfare > History
  • Aeronautics, Military
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Learning in real time: the development and implementation of air power in the First World War / Tami Biddle -- Achieving air ascendancy: challenge and response in British strategic air defence, 1915-40 / John Ferris -- The Royal Naval Air Service: a very modern service / Christina J.M. Goulter -- The Luftwaffe and lessons learned in the Spanish Civil War / James S. Corum -- The Second World War as a turning point in air power / Richard P. Hallion -- Maritime air power and the Second World War: Britain, the USA and Japan / John Buckley -- A neglected turning point in air power history: air power and the fall of France / Stuart W. Peach -- 'Learning is winning': Soviet air power doctrine, 1935-41 / James Sterret -- The development of tactical air doctrine in North Africa, 1940-43 / Brad Gladman -- Logistics doctrine and the impact of war: the Royal Air Force's experience in the Second World War / Peter Dye -- Australia and the war in the Pacific, 1942-45 / Ian MacFarling -- Planning the air campaign: the Washington perspective / Diane Putney -- The 1991 bombing of Baghdad: air power theory vs Iraqi realities / John Andreas Olsen -- The Gulf War and UK air power doctrine and practice / Sebastian Cox and Sebastian Ritchie -- Solidifying the foundation: Vietnam's impact on the basic doctrine of the US Air Force / Mark Clodfelter -- Air power victorious? Britain and NATO strategy during the Kosovo Conflict / Sebastian Ritchie -- The Balkans: an air power basket case? / Peter W. Gray.
ISBN
  • 0714652911 (cloth)
  • 0714682578 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2002025987
OCLC
49525878
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library