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Right Backed by Might - The International Air Force Concept

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This study provides an overview of the International Air Force (IAF) concept, which emerged in the early 20th century out of a long progression of schemes for creating multi-national armed forces to enforce the peace, most often referred to as an international police force (IPF). After broadly tracing the IAF's complex lineage, Beaumont surveys the proliferation of IPF and IAF proposals throughout the 20th century, including schemes offered by Kipling, H.G. Wells, and Theodore Roosevelt. Later ideas included the Allies' Independent Air Force of 1917-18, the evolution of the League to Enforce Peace into the League of Nations, imperial air policing between the World Wars, and a host of proposals, official and informal, such as visions of a United Nations IAF and the ad hoc coalition air forces assembled by the major western powers in the Gulf War and the Balkans in the 1990s.

The IAF concept gained far greater popularity, even among contemporary historians, than is generally appreciated. Beaumont interweaves the review of the IAF and IPF designs with diplomacy and war, especially the rise of air power, and the confounding of its advocates' visions of a cheap, quick road to victory. Based on Beaumont's survey of secondary and primary sources during more than a decade of research, this book considers the IAF image from such diverse perspectives as pacifism, popular culture, and collective security.

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Introduction
Seeds on the Wind: Visions of Universal Peace and Air Power from Ancient to Modern Times
Bloom and Wilt: The International Police Force Concept and the League of Nations
Frail Blossoms Between Storms: The Growth of the International Air Force Concept, 1919-1939
In Fulsome Bloom: Manifold Visions of an International Air Force in World War II
Scattered Petals on the Wind: Collective Security and Air Power, 1945 to the Present


About the author

ROGER BEAUMONT is Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He is author of Military Elites: Special Fighting Units in the Modern World, Sword of the Raj: The British Army in India, 1747-1947, and The Nerves of War, a short history of command and control. His numerous articles have appeared in publications such as Journal of Contemporary History, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Signal, Royal United Services Institute Journal and Military Affairs. Dr. Beaumont is cofounder and North American editor of the journal Defense Analysis.

Product details

Authors Roger Beaumont
Publisher Bloomsbury
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation ages 7 to 17
Product format Hardback
Released 28.02.2001
 
EAN 9780275971724
ISBN 978-0-275-97172-4
No. of pages 216
Weight 510 g
Subjects Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

HISTORY / World, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Air forces & warfare, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General and world history, Air forces and warfare, HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space

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