Air Power Supremo

Author : William Pike
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 9781399095525
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power Supremo: A Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor written by William Pike and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Slessor was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished wartime commanders and incisive military thinkers, and William Pyke's comprehensive new biography reveals how he earned this remarkable reputation.Slessor, a polio victim who always walked with a stick, became a First World War pilot in the Sudan and on the Western Front and a squadron and wing commander in India between the wars. When aerial warfare was still a new concept, he was one of the first to develop practical tactics and strategies in its application. In the Second World War, as the Commander-in-Chief of Coastal Command during the Battle of the Atlantic and the RAF in the Mediterranean during the Italian and Balkan campaigns, he made a remarkable contribution to the success of Allied air power. Then, after the war, as a senior commander he established himself as one of the foremost experts on strategic bombing and nuclear deterrence. That is why this insightful biography of a great British airman and his achievements is so timely and important as we enter a new era of strategic doubts and deterrence at the beginning of the twenty-first century.William Pyke follows each stage of Slessor's brilliant career as a pilot and commander in vivid detail. In particular he concentrates on Slessor's writings, from his treatise on the application of air power in support of land armies to his thinking on nuclear deterrence and Western strategy.

Author : William Pyke
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399095536
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power Supremo written by William Pyke and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Slessor was one of the twentieth century’s most distinguished wartime commanders and incisive military thinkers, and William Pyke’s comprehensive new biography reveals how he earned this remarkable reputation. Slessor, a polio victim who always walked with a stick, became a First World War pilot in the Sudan and on the Western Front and a squadron and wing commander in India between the wars. When aerial warfare was still a new concept, he was one of the first to develop practical tactics and strategies in its application. In the Second World War, as the Commander-in-Chief of Coastal Command during the Battle of the Atlantic and the RAF in the Mediterranean during the Italian and Balkan campaigns, he made a remarkable contribution to the success of Allied air power. Then, after the war, as a senior commander he established himself as one of the foremost experts on strategic bombing and nuclear deterrence. That is why this insightful biography of a great British airman and his achievements is so timely and important as we enter a new era of strategic doubts and deterrence at the beginning of the twenty-first century. William Pyke follows each stage of Slessor’s brilliant career as a pilot and commander in vivid detail. In particular he concentrates on Slessor’s writings, from his treatise on the application of air power in support of land armies to his thinking on nuclear deterrence and Western strategy.

Author : Michael S. Sherry
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300036000
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of American Air Power written by Michael S. Sherry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prizewinning book is the first in-depth history of American strategic bombing. Michael S. Sherry explores the growing appeal of air power in America before World War II, the ideas, techniques, personalities, and organizations that guided air attacks during the war, and the devastating effects of American and British "conventional" bombing. He also traces the origins of the dangerous illusion that the bombing of cities would be so horrific that nations would not dare let it occur - an illusion that has sanctioned the growth of nuclear arsenals.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781442250963
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power written by Jeremy Black and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world's finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the two world wars and the more limited wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Considering both the theory and praxis of air power, the author begins with hot air balloons, and then highlights the use of zeppelins, piston engine fighters, jet bombers, and finally the so-called Military Revolution of today. While discussing the growth of American and European military aviation, Black, a pioneer in emphasizing the importance of non-Western military history for understanding global developments, also traces the emergence of air power in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Black breaks new ground by exploring not only to conventional war--both inside and outside Europe--but also to the use of air power in unconventional wars, especially critical given to the spread of insurgencies around the globe. He vividly describes traditional debates over the pros and cons of strategic bombing and aircraft carriers versus battleships and gives equal attention to managerial, doctrinal, and technological innovations. The author shows how better management resulted in increasing lethality of close air support of the RAF during the latter part of World War II and at the same times highlights the limits of air power with case studies of the two Gulf Wars. The author goes beyond our traditional understanding of air power associated with bombing and fighter engagements, adding the important elements associated with naval power, including ground/logistics support, anti-aircraft measures, and political constraints. As he explains, air power has become Western politicians' weapon of choice, spreading maximum destruction with the minimum of commitment. His current and comprehensive study considers how we got to this point, and what the future has in store. Anyone seeking a balanced, accurate understanding of air power in history will find this book an essential introduction.

Author : Norman Ridley
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1399066870
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Air Power in Europe Preparing for War written by Norman Ridley and published by Air World. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare. Battle fronts had become immobilized in the grip of machine-guns and heavy artillery, leading to slaughter on an unprecedented scale. The end of the war saw exhausted governments extricating themselves from the carnage, but some leaders were concerned that, sooner or later, another major war would follow. As France’s Marshal Foch put it, the Treaty of Versailles was only a ‘twenty-year truce’. The overriding concern was to find ways in future of avoiding the kind of static battle fronts that had consumed so many in such futile efforts. Military aviation was seen as the one great innovation that had the potential to do this by revolutionizing warfare. It would not only augment the effectiveness of ground forces in a tactical role, but it also had the means of reaching out strategically beyond the battlefronts to strike at the enemy’s trade, supplies, communications and industrial production. All through the war, military aviation had been firmly under the control of army commanders but there was soon a fierce debate over the way it should develop. The development of an ‘air doctrine’ within each of the major European powers was fraught with difficulty as the nascent air arms struggled, with varying degrees of success, to free themselves from army control to find a new, independent identity. This book examines the way in which these air arms competed for prominence within the military structures of six major European nations – Germany, Britain, France, Soviet Union, Poland and Italy – with different resources, ambitions and philosophies, in the years from the beginning of aviation right up to the start of the Second World War.

Author : Eugene Edward Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power for Peace written by Eugene Edward Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anita Isaacs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349089222
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Rule and Transition in Ecuador, 1972–92 written by Anita Isaacs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interprets the Ecuadorian transition to civilian rule following a prolonged period of military dictatorship (1972-79), and assesses the difficulties posed by efforts to consolidate democracy during the decade that followed. It focuses on civilian opposition to the policies of the regime.

Author : Bill Gunston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of World Air Power written by Bill Gunston and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Budiansky
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 : 9780143034742
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power written by Stephen Budiansky and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II explores the innovations that propelled "air power" into the lexicon of warfare, from the first biplanes to drop ordinance to the high-tech wonders of missile-firing drone aircraft. Reprint.

Author : Albert N. Garland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sicily and the Surrender of Italy written by Albert N. Garland and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: