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Air Mobility : A Brief History of the American Experience /

Global air mobility is an American invention. During the twentieth century, other nations developed capabilities to transport supplies and personnel by air to support deployed military forces. But only the United States mustered the resources and will to create a global transport force and aerial re...

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Autor principal: Owen, Robert C., 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Discovering air mobility -- Military air transport in the 1920s -- Civil aviation between the wars -- Military air transport in the 1930s -- Mobilizing air transport for global war -- Air transport in World War II -- Troop carrier aviation in World War II -- Airlift consolidation in the 1940s -- The Berlin Airlift -- The Korean War -- Troop carrier aviation in the 1950s -- Army aviation in the 1950s -- Air transport in the 1950s -- The national military airlift hearings -- Inventing the civil reserve airlift fleet -- Vietnam: the air mobility war -- Nickel grass -- Airlift consolidation in the 1970s -- Airlift in the 1980s -- Acquisition of the C-17 -- The first Gulf War -- Messing with success -- The 1990s-years of steady-state surge -- The 2000s-years of steady-state war -- Haiti 2010-the way it works -- The secret is people. 
520 |a Global air mobility is an American invention. During the twentieth century, other nations developed capabilities to transport supplies and personnel by air to support deployed military forces. But only the United States mustered the resources and will to create a global transport force and aerial refueling aircraft capable of moving air and ground combat forces of all types to anywhere in the world and supporting them in continuous combat operations. Whether contemplating a bomber campaign or halting another surprise attack, American war planners have depended on transport and tanker aircraft. 
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