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Air Power - The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq (Paperback)
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Air Power - The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq (Paperback)
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An epic up-to-the-minute history of the airplane in combat--the
pilots, the strategists, the weaponry, and the high-tech battles
they increasingly dominate. Within a decade of the Wright Brothers'
historic flight at Kitty Hawk, pilots were dropping the first crude
bombs out of airplanes in combat while visionaries were predicting
that the crushing power of an aerial assault would end warfare as
we knew it. Yet for much of the first century of flight the myth of
the airplane's unstoppable power often surged far ahead of
technological reality. It would take both brilliant new inventions
and bold new thinking for air power to triumph at last--as it did
with such devastating effect in the two Gulf wars. This sweeping
history includes the latest inside details of air operations in
Afghanistan and Iraq, where precision weapons and unmanned drones
quickly determined the outcome of the fight against the Taliban and
Saddam Hussein. Stephen Budiansky draws on combat memoirs,
government archives, and museum collections to create a sobering
and dramatic account of the air wars of the last hundred years. A
story of ideas and men, of intricate machines and fierce passions,
Air Power is an edge-of-the-seat drama of contemporary warfare and
technology crafted by one of our most gifted writers.
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