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Trial by fire : forging American close air support doctrine, World War I through September 1944 by Philip, Major; Wielhouwer, W is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Proper doctrine for close support of American ground forces by airpower has been a tumultuous issue since the first days of combat aircraft. Air and ground leaders struggled with interservice rivalry, parochialism, employment paradigms, and technological roadblocks while seeking the optimum balance of missions given the unique speed, range, and flexibility of aircraft. Neither ground force concepts of airpower as self-defense and extended organic artillery, nor air force theories focused on comm
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- Author
- Philip, Major; Wielhouwer, W
- Publisher
- Pickle Partners Publishing
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781782898290
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Military, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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