Airpower applied : U.S., NATO, and Israeli combat experience /

Airpower applied : U.S., NATO, and Israeli combat experience /

Through a critical examination of twenty-nine case studies in which various U.S. coalitions and Israel played significant roles, this book offers perspectives on the political purpose, strategic meaning and military importance of airpower. The authors demystify some of airpower's strategic hist...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Olsen, John Andreas, 1968- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2017]
Series:History of military aviation.
Subjects:
Israel. > Ḥel ha-aṿir.
Air power > United States > Case studies.
Air power > Israel > Case studies.
Combined operations (Military science) > Case studies.
Israel > History, Military.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Airpower in action / John Andreas Olsen
  • America as a military aerospace nation: from Pearl Harbor to Desert Storm / Richard P. Hallion
  • American and NATO airpower applied: from Deny Flight to Inherent Resolve / Benjamin S. Lambeth
  • Modeling airpower: the Arab-Israeli wars of the twentieth century / Alan Stephens
  • The Israeli Air Force and asymmetric conflicts, 1982-2014 / Raphael Rudnik and Ephraim Segoli
  • The airpower profession / John A. Warden III
  • Afterword / by Eliot A. Cohen.