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Case Studies in the Development of Close Air Support (Paperback)
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Case Studies in the Development of Close Air Support (Paperback)
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Since the introduction of aircraft to warfare, ground commanders
have seen them as a powerful addition to their plans for dislodging
and pursuing an enemy or for defending against assaults on friendly
positions. For military aviators, battlefield support is one of a
range of possible uses of aircraft in attacking hostile forces.
Often, more profitable targets are in the enemy's war industries or
in the opposing army's rear areas, where supplies and units are
exposed on transportation nets leading to a fighting front. This
book examines the development of various doctrines on the
application of aviation against battlefield targets. Written by
several well-known military and aviation historians, these
analytical essays present examples of close air-support experience
from World War I to the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. Dr. Benjamin
Franklin Cooling served as the Air Force project coordinator and
general editor for this volume. He received his doctor of
philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania and began a
career as a historian in the 1960s. He has served in various
research and supervisory positions with the U.S. Army Center of
Military History, the U.S. Army Military History Institute, and the
Office of Air Force History. An authority on the history of the
American Civil War, Dr. Cooling has published widely on military
and naval topics of that era. He has been executive director of the
American Military Institute, a research fellow at the Naval War
College, and a lecturer in military history at the U.S. Army War
College. In 1989, Dr. Cooling became Chief Historian of the
Department of Energy.
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