Beyond the Wild Blue (2nd edition): A History of the U.S. Air Force, 1947-2007Macmillan, 2007/06/26 - 576 ページ From the most important leaders and the most courageous victories to the earliest machines of flight and the most advanced Stealth technology, Walter J. Boyne's Beyond the Wild Blue presents a fascinating look at 50 turbulent years of Air Force history. |
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... effect of precision-guided munitions completely disheartened the political and military leaders of the Soviet Union. With their economy imploding under the strain of seventy-four years of corruption and inefficiency, the Soviet leaders ...
... effect upon limited wars that were not so threatening as to require the use of nuclear weapons. The war in Vietnam demonstrated this painfully to the United States, which could not find until December 1972 the will to use air power in ...
... effect upon the character of the USAF, for it was Arnold—a visionary pragmatist rather than a scientist—who set the Air Force firmly upon the path of research and development. And in a more mysterious, less definable way, it was Arnold ...
... effect of air power could never be attained if air forces continued to be controlled by ground commanders. Over the next half century, this would prove to be a lesson strangely hard to learn and extremely easy to forget. Arnold and ...
... effects of turbulence, in particular as it related to airship design. Sadly, before his studies were completed and published, two great airships, the U.S. Navy's Akron (ZRS-4) and Macon (ZRS-5), had crashed as a result of encounters ...
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19531961 | 99 |
5 The many facets of war | 145 |
four major commands | 193 |
7 Change after vietnam | 225 |
8 Leadership doctrine and technology after vietnam | 253 |
11 Terror and response | 349 |
12 Assessing problems and facing challenges | 367 |
Appendix one | 391 |
Appendix two | 395 |
Appendix three | 399 |
Appendix four | 425 |
Bibliography | 433 |
A chronology of aerospace power since 1903 | 439 |