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What is Global Air Power about?
What influences have shaped air power since human flight became a reality more than a hundred years ago? __Global Air Power__ provides insight into the evolution of air power theory and practice by examining the experience of six of the world’s largest air forces―those of the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, Russia, India, and China―and of representative smaller air forces in Pacific Asia, Latin America, and continental Europe. The chapters, written by highly regarded scholars and military leaders, explore how various nations have integrated air power into their armed forces and how they have applied air power in both regular and irregular warfare and in peacetime operations. They cover the organizational, professional, and doctrinal issues that air forces confronted in the past, the lessons learned from victory and defeat, and emerging challenges and opportunities.Further, __Global Air Power__ supplements the traditional military perspective with examinations of the ideological, economic, and cultural factors that give air forces their distinctive characters. Chapters show how the interplay among these internal factors, together with external challenges, determines the s
Who reads Global Air Power?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Andreas Olsen
- Publisher
- Potomac Books, Inc.; Potomac Books; Potomac Books Inc.
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781597975551
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Military, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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