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Aerial Warfare
A Very Short Introduction
Taschenbuch von Frank Ledwidge
Sprache: Englisch

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Aerial warfare has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping global history of air warfare, introducing the major battles, crises, and controversies where air power has taken centre stage.
Aerial warfare has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping global history of air warfare, introducing the major battles, crises, and controversies where air power has taken centre stage.
Über den Autor
Dr Frank Ledwidge is Senior Fellow in Air Power and International Security at the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell. Over the last 20 years, he has seen air power at work all over the world. After a 7 year career as a barrister, he was called up to serve as a reservist intelligence officer in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s with the mission to locate war criminals. In 2003 Frank served as commander of one of the intelligence teams sent to Iraq to hunt for WMD. One of few British officials to have served in all of the country's recent wars, he has also worked for the UK government in Helmand and Libya during the conflicts there. In his civilian life, he has worked as a human rights lawyer throughout the Balkans, the Former Soviet Union and Africa. Frank is the author of two acclaimed and bestselling books on British military performance in the 9/11 wars; Losing Small Wars (2011) and Investment in Blood (2013) both with Yale University Press, as well as several academic articles.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • 1: Foundations

  • 2: Beginnings: The First World War 1914-1918

  • 3: Theory and Practice: The interwar years 1919-1939

  • 4: The Second World War: air operations in the West

  • 5: The Second World War: the air war in the Pacific

  • 6: Cold war 1945-1982

  • 7: The apotheosis of air power 1983-2001

  • 8: Aerostats to algorithms; 2001-2018

  • 9: Per ardua ad astra?

  • References

  • Further Reading

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Zeitgeschichte & Politik
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: ab 1949
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198804314
ISBN-10: 0198804318
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ledwidge, Frank
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 172 x 108 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Frank Ledwidge
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,126 kg
Artikel-ID: 117494428
Über den Autor
Dr Frank Ledwidge is Senior Fellow in Air Power and International Security at the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell. Over the last 20 years, he has seen air power at work all over the world. After a 7 year career as a barrister, he was called up to serve as a reservist intelligence officer in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s with the mission to locate war criminals. In 2003 Frank served as commander of one of the intelligence teams sent to Iraq to hunt for WMD. One of few British officials to have served in all of the country's recent wars, he has also worked for the UK government in Helmand and Libya during the conflicts there. In his civilian life, he has worked as a human rights lawyer throughout the Balkans, the Former Soviet Union and Africa. Frank is the author of two acclaimed and bestselling books on British military performance in the 9/11 wars; Losing Small Wars (2011) and Investment in Blood (2013) both with Yale University Press, as well as several academic articles.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • 1: Foundations

  • 2: Beginnings: The First World War 1914-1918

  • 3: Theory and Practice: The interwar years 1919-1939

  • 4: The Second World War: air operations in the West

  • 5: The Second World War: the air war in the Pacific

  • 6: Cold war 1945-1982

  • 7: The apotheosis of air power 1983-2001

  • 8: Aerostats to algorithms; 2001-2018

  • 9: Per ardua ad astra?

  • References

  • Further Reading

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Zeitgeschichte & Politik
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: ab 1949
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198804314
ISBN-10: 0198804318
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ledwidge, Frank
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 172 x 108 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Frank Ledwidge
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,126 kg
Artikel-ID: 117494428
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