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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... later), cruise missiles, and a variety of precision-guided munitions were used by highly skilled crews to provide an astounding double victory. The first victory was over the dispirited Iraqi commanders and troops, who quite literally ...
... later. Exile at Fort Riley should have meant the end of Arnold's career, particularly because he continued to lobby covertly for Mitchell's ideas. Although discouraged about his progress—he would remain a major from 1920 to 1931—he ...
... later, on April 4, 1933, after seventy-four flights and 1,700 hours in the air, she was caught off the coast of New Jersey in a violent storm that tore her apart, sending her crashing into the Atlantic with a loss of all but three of a ...
... later Chiefs of Staff of the Air Force found that they had to convince more and more individuals and many more intermediate layers of command. As will be shown later, in time the bureaucracy of the Department of Defense and especially ...
... later suggested broadly that those who did not “play ball” might well expect an assignment to Guam. Arnold's subsequent performance, particularly at the many summit conferences, eventually smoothed all this over. Marshall made Arnold a ...
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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 |