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Why Air Forces Fail : The Anatomy of Defeat /

Since the publication of the first edition of Why Air Forces Fail, the debate over airpower's role in military operations has only intensified. Here, eminent historians Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris assemble a team of experts to add essential new details to their cautionary tale for curren...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harris, Stephen John (Editor ), Higham, Robin, 1925- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edición:Revised and expanded edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Robin Higham
  • Poland's military aviation, September 1939 : it never had a chance / Michael Alfred Peszke
  • L'Armee de l'air, 1933-1940 : drifting toward defeat / Anthony Christopher Cain
  • The Arab air forces / Robin Higham
  • Defeat of the German and Austro-Hungarian air forces in the Great War, 1909-1918 / John H. Morrow Jr.
  • Downfall of the Regia aeronautica, 1933-1943 / Brian R. Sullivan
  • The Imperial Japanese Air Forces / Osamu Tagaya
  • Defeat of the Luftwaffe, 1935-1945 / James S. Corum
  • The Argentine Air Force versus Britain in the Falkland Islands, 1982 / Rene De La Pedraja
  • From disaster to recovery : Russia's air forces in the two world wars / David R. Jones
  • The United States in the Pacific / Mark Parillo
  • Defeats of the Royal Air Force : Norway, France, Greece, and Malaya, 1940-1942 / Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris
  • RAF Bomber Command as phoenix / Stephen J. Harris
  • American airpower in Vietnam : doomed to failure? / Kenneth P. Werrell
  • Conclusion / Stephen J. Harris and Robin Higham.