The rapid development of airpower has been one of the most marked
features of warfare in the twentieth century. It has been attended
by great controversy, both among its practitioners and between
historians and political scientists who seek to understand and
explain it. The nine contributions to this volume focus on key
issues in these debates. In dealing with the many topics within
this book, methodological issues are also tackled in a manner of
interest and importance both to historians and to political
scientists. Airpower: Theory and Practice spans almost the entire
history of air warfare, from World War I to the Second Gulf War
(1991). It considers the role of the individual propagandist for
the new arm, Alexander P. de Seversky and his book Victory Through
Air Power (1942) adapted for the cinema screen by Walt Disney, and
the influence of institutions on a new armed service, which
constrained the birth of the French Air Force between the wars. One
study looks at a decisive yet modest aerial intervention in a
modern but limited internal war, the role of the German Condor
Legion in the Spanish Civil War. Three of the essays analyse in
detail the nature of Anglo-American air doctrine and co-operation,
during 1941-45, both in the strategic bombing of Germany and in the
Atlantic maritime war against the U-boat menace.
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