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American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-53 (Hardcover)
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American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-53 (Hardcover)
Series: Modern War Studies
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The Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed
U.S. Air Force, but far from the type of conflict it expected or
wanted to fight. As the first air war of the nuclear age, it posed
a major challenge to the service to define and successfully carry
out its mission by stretching the constraints of limited war while
avoiding the excesses of total war. Conrad Crane analyzes both the
successes and failures of the air force in Korea, offering a
balanced treatment of how the air war in Korea actually unfolded.
He examines the Air Force's contention that it could play a
decisive role in a non-nuclear regional war but shows that the
fledgling service was held to unrealistically high expectations
based on airpower's performance in World War II, despite being
constrained by the limited nature of the Korean conflict. Crane
exposes the tensions and rivalries between services, showing that
emphasis on strategic bombing came at the expense of air support
for ground troops, and he tells how interactions between army and
air force generals shaped the air force's mission and strategy. He
also addresses misunderstandings about plans to use nuclear,
biological, and chemical weapons in the war and includes new
information from pilot correspondence about the informal policy of
"hot pursuit" over the Yalu that existed at the end of the war. The
book considers not only the actual air effort in Korea but also its
ramifications. The air force doubled in size during the war and
used that growth to secure its position in the defense
establishment, but it wagered its future on its ability to deliver
nuclear weapons in a high-intensity conflict-a position that left
it unprepared to fight the next limited war in Vietnam. As America
observes the fiftieth anniversary of its initial engagement in
Korea, Crane's book is an important reminder of the lessons learned
there. And as airpower continues to be a cornerstone of American
defense, this examination of its uses in Korea provides new
insights about the air force's capabilities and limitations. Conrad
C. Crane is professor of history at the United States Military
Academy and the author of Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American
Airpower Strategy in World War II.
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