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No Sense in Dwelling on the Past? The Fate of the US Air Force's German Air Force Monograph Project, 1952-69 (Paperback)
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No Sense in Dwelling on the Past? The Fate of the US Air Force's German Air Force Monograph Project, 1952-69 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R450
Discovery Miles 4 500
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This book examines the German air force (GAF) monograph project,
also known as the Karlsruhe project, through which the US Air Force
employed former Luftwaffe generals to record the history of World
War II from the German perspective. Historians have explored
parallel programs in the US Army and Navy, but the Karlsruhe
project has received little attention. However, the Air Force
monographs have proven useful to historians because of their high
quality. This book attributes the Karlsruhe monographs' strength as
works of history primarily to the Air Force's limited interest in
them, which insulated the writers from outside pressure to produce
studies of immediate utility to the military. Whereas policy needs
drove the Army and Navy programs and often caused them to search
for convenient tactical "lessons" in German history, the GAF
monograph project was effectively autonomous. This was a mixed
blessing. Chronically undermanned and inadequately funded, the
project ended with most studies still unfinished. The Air Force
ignored the monographs and failed to benefit from the experience of
the Luftwaffe. This book illustrates the inherent tensions in
writing official military history and utilizes the Karlsruhe
project as a lens to examine problems plaguing the Air Force during
the early Cold War. Still, cooperative historical work proved to be
an inexpensive and unexpected way of cementing the critical West
German-American military alliance, and both air forces came to
value this aspect of the project more than the historical studies
it produced.
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