An Air Power Bibliography
Author | : Raymond Estep |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Aeronatics, Military |
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Author | : Raymond Estep |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Aeronatics, Military |
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Author | : Jeremy Black |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2016-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442250976 |
This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world’s finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the two world wars and the more limited wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Considering both the theory and praxis of air power, the author begins with hot air balloons, and then highlights the use of zeppelins, piston engine fighters, jet bombers, and finally the so-called Military Revolution of today. While discussing the growth of American and European military aviation, Black, a pioneer in emphasizing the importance of non-Western military history for understanding global developments, also traces the emergence of air power in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Black breaks new ground by exploring not only to conventional war—both inside and outside Europe—but also to the use of air power in unconventional wars, especially critical given to the spread of insurgencies around the globe. He vividly describes traditional debates over the pros and cons of strategic bombing and aircraft carriers versus battleships and gives equal attention to managerial, doctrinal, and technological innovations. The author shows how better management resulted in increasing lethality of close air support of the RAF during the latter part of World War II and at the same times highlights the limits of air power with case studies of the two Gulf Wars. The author goes beyond our traditional understanding of air power associated with bombing and fighter engagements, adding the important elements associated with naval power, including ground/logistics support, anti-aircraft measures, and political constraints. As he explains, air power has become Western politicians’ weapon of choice, spreading maximum destruction with the minimum of commitment. His current and comprehensive study considers how we got to this point, and what the future has in store. Anyone seeking a balanced, accurate understanding of air power in history will find this book an essential introduction.
Author | : Eugene Morlock Emme |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Air power |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eugene Morlock Emme |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Air power |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Andreas Olsen |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 603 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1597973238 |
Dr. John Andreas Olsen has written an insightful, compelling biography of retired U.S. Air Force colonel John A. Warden III, the brilliant but controversial air warfare theorist and architect of Operation Desert Storm s air campaign. Warden s radical ideas about air power s purposes and applications, promulgated at the expense of his own career, sparked the ongoing revolution in military affairs. Legendary in defense circles, Warden is also the author of "The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat" (republished by Brassey s, Inc. in 1989). Presenting both the positives and negatives of Warden s personality and impact in this objective portrait, Olsen offers a trenchant analysis of his revolutionary ideas and great accomplishments. "
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Military |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen Budiansky |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2005-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101118407 |
No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane became an unstoppable force that left no spot on earth safe from attack. Drawing on combat memoirs, letters, diaries, archival records, museum collections, and eyewitness accounts by the men who fought—and the men who developed the breakthrough inventions and concepts—acclaimed author Stephen Budiansky weaves a vivid and dramatic account of the airplane’s revolutionary transformation of modern warfare. On the web: http://www.budiansky.com/
Author | : Carl Berger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Buckley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2006-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135362769 |
Warfare in the first half of the 20th century was fundamentally and irrovocably altered by the birth and subsequent development of air power. This work assesses the role of air power in changing the face of battle on land and sea. Utilizing late-1990s research, the author demonstrates that the phenomenon of air power was both a cause and a crucial accelerating factor contributing to the theory and practice of total war. For instance, the expansion of warfare to the homefront was a direct result of bombing and indirectly due to the extent of national economic mobilization required to support first rate air power status. In addition, the move away from the principle of total war with the onset of the Cold War and the replacement of air power by ICBMs is thoroughly examined. This work should provide students of international history, war studies, defence and strategic studies with an insight into 20th-century warfare.
Author | : Air University (U.S.). Research Studies Institute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |