Air Mobility : A Brief History of the American Experience /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Temas:
United States. > Air Force.
États-Unis. > Air Force > Transport > Histoire.
United States. > Air Force > Transportation > History.
Transportation, Military.
Armed Forces > Transportation.
Airlift, Military.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Transports militaires > États-Unis > Histoire.
Transportation, Military > United States > History.
Airlift, Military > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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