Why Air Forces Fail : The Anatomy of Defeat /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Harris, Stephen John (Editor), Higham, Robin, 1925- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edition:Revised and expanded edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Military history, Modern > 20th century.
Aeronautics, Military > History > 20th century.
Air forces > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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