Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat

From: Air & Space Power Journal | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Kane, Robert B | Copyright information

Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat edited by Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris. University Press of Kentucky (http://www.kentucky press.com), 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008, 2006, 416 pages, $39.95 (hardcover).

Historians have well documented the defeats of armies and navies but have paid far less attention to the defeat of air forces. What does exist is usually in histories of the greater conflict of which the air campaigns were a part. In Why Air ...

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