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Airpower for strategic effect / Colin S. Gray.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Colin S., author.
- Series:
- Air University series on airpower and national security
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Air power.
- Air power--United States.
- Air power--United States--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 346 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2012.
- Summary:
- "Airpower for strategic effect is intended to contribute to the understanding of airpower-- what it is, what it does, why it does it, and what the consequences are. This is the plot: airpower generates strategic effect. Airpower's product is strategic effect on the course of strategic history. Everything about military airpower is instrumental to the purpose of securing strategic effect."--Preface.
- Contents:
- Airpower : a contested narrative
- Ideas for action
- Geographies of warfare
- Strategic history I : Sagittarius rising, 1903-39
- Strategic history II : the great test, 1939-45
- Strategic history III : troubled triumph, 1945-89
- Strategic history IV : strategic moment, 1990-99
- Strategic history V : airpower after 9/11
- Airpower theory
- Per ardua ad astra.
- Notes:
- "February 2012."
- Online version lacks index.
- Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 8, 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-346).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gray, Colin S. Airpower for strategic effect
- ISBN:
- 9781585662180
- 1585662186
- OCLC:
- 792892077
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