British imperial air power : the Royal Air Forces and the defense of Australia and New Zealand between the world wars / Alex M. Spencer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, Alex M., author.

Series:

Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics.

Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Royal Air Force--History--20th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"British Imperial Air Power examines the air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period. It also demonstrates the difficulty of applying new military aviation technology to the defense of the global Empire and provides insight into the nature of the political relationship between the Pacific Dominions and Britain. Following World War I, both Dominions sought greater independence in defense and foreign policy. Public aversion to military matters and the economic dislocation resulting from the war and later the Depression left little money that could be provided for their respective air forces. As a result, the Empire's air services spent the entire interwar period attempting to create a strategy in the face of these handicaps. In order to survive, the British Empire's military air forces offered themselves as a practical and economical third option in the defense of Britain's global Empire, intending to replace the Royal Navy and British Army as the traditional pillars of imperial defense."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The First Imperial Air Defense Schemes, 1918-1919

The Formation of the Royal Australian Air Force and the First Reassessments of Pacific Defenses, 1920-1921

The Empire's Air Defense: The Geddes Cuts of 1922, and the 1923 Imperial Conference and Their Influence on the Empire's Air Defense, 1922-1923

The Royal Air Force and Postwar Air Transport Defense Planning and the Airmail Scheme, 1919-1939

Airships and the Empire: Defense, Schemes, and Disaster, 1919-1930

Air Defense and the Labour Party: Singapore Naval Base and the 1926 Imperial Conference, 1924-1926

Imperial Air Mobility, the Salmond Report, and Air Marshal Trenchard's Last Salvo, 1927-1929

Depression and Disarmament, 1929-1933

The International Crises and Imperial Rearmament, 1934-1936

The Final Preparations, 1937-1940.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-55753-941-3

OCLC:

1140357651