War in the Sky

ASEE Prism | September 1, 2005| | Copyright

ON THE SHELF War in the Sky In his new book, Stephen Budiansky argues that only recently has military air power lived up to expectations. BY JUSTIN EWERS AIR POWER The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II By Stephen Budiansky Penguin Group, 518 pp.

LESS THAN EIGHT YEARS after the Wright brothers first showed that manned flight was feasible - "introducing into the world," Orville wrote, "an invention which would make further wars impossible" -an Italian pilot in a rickety machine became the first to wage war from the air. The four grenade-size bombs ...

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