Air Power: From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II : a History of the People, Ideas and Machines that Transformed War in the Century of FlightViking, 2003 - 518 من الصفحات Arguably no single human invention has transformed war more than the aeroplane. The potential of airpower to change the very nature - perhaps even the meaning - of combat was strikingly evident almost from the moment the Wright brothers first flew. showing how, during the course of the 20th century, it transformed warfare. Drawing on combat memoirs, government and industry archives, technical studies and museum collections, this text brings together a complete narrative history of war in the air, with the people, events, ideas and inventions that made it possible. |
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... nuclear war could only mean mutual annihila- tion . " There is today not the slightest chance of anyone winning a war , ” John Slessor , the RAF's recently retired Chief of Air Staff , wrote in Air Force Maga- zine in 1954. President ...
... nuclear war could only mean mutual annihila- tion . " There is today not the slightest chance of anyone winning a war , ” John Slessor , the RAF's recently retired Chief of Air Staff , wrote in Air Force Maga- zine in 1954. President ...
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... nuclear - war - fighting plans and strategy . Despite their Strangelovian reputation , the RAND experts and other civilian consultants who scrutinized the Air Force's nuclear - targeting plans were from the start appalled by the ...
... nuclear - war - fighting plans and strategy . Despite their Strangelovian reputation , the RAND experts and other civilian consultants who scrutinized the Air Force's nuclear - targeting plans were from the start appalled by the ...
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... nuclear weapons in the event of a Soviet attack . What had been an extreme but rationally defensible posture at a time when NATO could threaten to use battlefield nuclear weapons without fear of nuclear retalia- tion was now reduced to ...
... nuclear weapons in the event of a Soviet attack . What had been an extreme but rationally defensible posture at a time when NATO could threaten to use battlefield nuclear weapons without fear of nuclear retalia- tion was now reduced to ...
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