Right backed by might : the international air force concept / Roger Beaumont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaumont, Roger A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International police.

Air forces.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

RIGHT BACKED BY MIGHT

Contents

Introduction

I Seeds on the Wind: Visions of Universal Peace and Air Power

NOTES

II Bloom and Wilt: The International Police Force Concept and the League of Nations

III Blossoms on the Wind: Growth of the International Air Force Concept, 1919-1939

IV In Fullest Bloom: Manifold Visions of an International Air Force in World War II

V Blossoms Scattered and Faded: Collective Security since World War II

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216008910

9780313002584

9780313002588

0313002584

OCLC:

50321604