Air forces & warfare books

Responding to comments made by the Secretary of Defense in April 2008, the United States Air Force began procuring...  Read More >>

Originally designed in the late 1950s, the Air Force Satellite Network (AFSCN) was activated to support the Discoverer...  Read More >>

The primary issue is to examine the historical perspective that air bombardment necessarily results in high numbers...  Read More >>

This research explored the historical Air Force values-related initiatives that have existed since its creation...  Read More >>

As Chief of the Army Air Service from 1921 to 1927, Major General Mason Patrick led the establishment of the Air...  Read More >>

The purpose of this work is first, to seek out and record events in the history of military nursing that influenced...  Read More >>

Current trends in the international political arena, combined with fiscal constraints at home, are pointing toward...  Read More >>

In a security environment characterized by regional conflicts, complex political situations, and accompanying constraints,...  Read More >>

The USAF fails due to wrong mind-set.The USAF fails to work effectively with small air forces in combined and coalition...  Read More >>

This study comprises an analysis of the strategic effects of airpower in irregular warfare. The author derives a...  Read More >>

In the summer of 1944, units of the Eighth and Fifteenth United States Army Air Forces began flying to and from...  Read More >>

When US Air Force Capt Scott O'Grady's F-16 was shot down over Bosnia in June 1995, Americans watched anxiously...  Read More >>

In the aftermath of the cold war, the world is witnessing a dramatic increase inregional conflict and associated...  Read More >>

Robert Olds became a true ambassador of American airpower during the 1920s and 1930s, enabling his country to develop...  Read More >>

The one and only shot the US had against Osama bin Laden was all down to a new surveillance aircraft the CIA was...  Read More >>

This study explores how the United States Air Force negotiates the problem of publicly communicating on behalf of...  Read More >>

The Air Force emerged from the Vietnam Conflict with an appreciation for the capabilities of unmanned aircraft....  Read More >>

One hundred years ago, the Aeronautical Division of the US Army Signal Corps consisted of three Airmen, one dirigible,...  Read More >>

As the United States military faces budgetary and congressional mandates to become more jointly oriented, the services...  Read More >>

This monograph is a historically based analysis of Soviet and U.S. attack helicopter development since 1962. Significant...  Read More >>

This thesis addresses the evolution of integrated close air support (CAS) from its birth to the present. By comparing...  Read More >>

Lieutenant General Millard F. Harmon, Jr. was the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces in the Pacific Oceans...  Read More >>

This paper examines the evolution of targeting and asks how effectively has the U.S. Air Force incorporated targeting...  Read More >>

The UK, now more than ever before, finds itself having to consider the realities of a Global War on Terror that...  Read More >>

Current operations throughout five geographic combatant commands collectively demonstrate the need for a totally...  Read More >>