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The Influence of Airpower upon History : Statesmanship, Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy since 1903 /

From early zeppelins, to the Luftwaffe and the Enola Gay, to the unmanned aerial vehicles of today, air power has long been regarded as an invaluable instrument of war. However, nations have employed aircraft for many other purposes as well; they provide security and surveillance, and they are vital...

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Otros Autores: Parillo, Mark P., 1955-, Higham, Robin, 1925-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a States and strategic airpower: continuity and change, 1906-1939 / John H. Morrow Jr. -- Politics and French aviators: a prism on the international European crises of the 1930s / Patrick Facon -- Hitler, airpower, and statecraft / Richard R. Muller -- The emperor and the despot : statesmen, patronage, and the strategic bomber in Imperial and Soviet Russia, 1909-1959 / David R. Jones -- Statesmen and airpower in Latin America, 1945-2010 / Rene de la Pedraja -- Presidential statesmen and U.S. airpower : personalities and perceptions / Jeffery S. Underwood -- Gunboat diplomacy : presidential use of aircraft carriers and their embarked air wings / Douglas V. Smith and Kent S. Coleman -- Chinese statesmen and the use of airpower -- Andrew S. Erickson -- A century of airpower / Mark Parillo. 
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