Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic - Bombing in World War

Informationen zum Autor Phil Haun is professor and dean of Academics at the US Naval War College. He is author of Coercion, Survival, and War: Why Weak States Resist the United States and coeditor of A-10s over Kosovo . Klappentext Following the cataclysmic losses suffered in World War I, air power theorists in Europe advocated for long-range bombers to overfly the trenches and strike deep into the enemy's heartland. The bombing of cities was seen as a means to collapse the enemy's will to resist and bring the war to a quick end. In the United States, airmen called for an independent air force, but with the nation's return to isolationism, there was little appetite for an offensive air power doctrine. By the 1930s, howe Zusammenfassung In Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II editor Phil Haun brings together nine ACTS lecture transcripts, which have been preserved in Air Force archives, exactly as delivered to the airmen destined to lead the US Army Air Forces in World War II.

Product details

• Authors: Phil Haun, Phil (EDT) Haun
• Assisted by: Phil Haun (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780813179247
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-7924-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Aviation & Air Power
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Aviation and space engineering; Militärtechnik, Flugzeuge und Luftfahrt, History - Military / War, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History, HISTORY / Military / Vehicles