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Why air forces fail : the anatomy of defeat / edited by Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Edition: Revised and expanded editionDescription: 1 online resource (454 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813167602
  • 0813167604
  • 9780813167619
  • 0813167612
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why air forces fail.DDC classification:
  • 359.4/8 23
LOC classification:
  • UG625 .W59 2016
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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 current practitioners of aerial warfare. Together, the contributors examine the complex, often deep-seated, reasons for the catastrophic failures of the Russian, Polish, French, British, Italian, German, Argentine, and American air services. Complemented by reading lists and suggestions for further research, this seminal study with two new chapters provides an essential and detailed analysis of defeat.
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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.

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 current practitioners of aerial warfare. Together, the contributors examine the complex, often deep-seated, reasons for the catastrophic failures of the Russian, Polish, French, British, Italian, German, Argentine, and American air services. Complemented by reading lists and suggestions for further research, this seminal study with two new chapters provides an essential and detailed analysis of defeat.

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