American Military Aviation: The Indispensable Arm
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1585442151 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Best Overall History of American Air Power" according to Amazon Customer. Dr. Charles Gross, the official Air National Guard Historian, has written a history of American air power that will stand as the definitive synthesis for many years to come. Scholars will find this book to be an invaluable one-volume guide to the field; military personnel involved in aviation will revere the book as essential professional reading; and general readers, looking for a critical history of the subject, will find everything they need and more between its co. Roger D. Launius said An Astute Synthesis. Charles J. Gross undertook to write an up-to-date synthesis of American military aviation, something that does not exist, and succeeded admirably. He argues that for all of the arguments from air power advocates in favor of the use of the airplane for combat operations to the exclusion of ground and naval forces, we are still dependent on land, sea, and air forces as a balanced set of assets for the execution of military power. This is an important issue in the curren. Reprocessed Secondary Sources A Customer This book aspires to mediocrity, and generally succeeds. It isn't actually bad (or I would have given it one star) but it isn't really any good either. The amazing thing is that in 300 pages, Gross manages to produce no significant new insights whatsoever. He relies entirely on secondary sources, but there is no "value added" in his synthesis of these works. You're better off just reading his sources for themselves! Even some trenchant criticism of the existing source
He also provides discussions of airlift, in-flight refueling, military budgets, industry, and inter-service squabbling. armed forces and assesses the actual impact of military aviation on warfare.Gross discusses major developments in aircraft, doctrine, training, and operations. Gross traces its development from the technological antecedents of the Wright brothers’ triumph through the air war for Kosovo. He deftly sketches the evolution of the air arms of each of the different services and provides clear analysis of military budgets. Military professionals, scholars, civilian government policy makers and planners, members of the media who concentrate on defense matters, and interested members of the general public will all rely on this book as the invaluable guide to the indispensable arm.”. Since the Wright brothers made their famed flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, aviation has emerged as the indispensable arm of American military power. He provides assessments of Eisenhower’s New Look” and MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction); of McNamara’s effort to use commonality”of equipment to cut costs and Kennedy’s buildup of the military; of the Nixon Doctrine and the failure of air power to resolve the long drawn-out conflict in Southeast Asia; and of the growing reliance on American air-power in the post-Cold War world.This well illustrated
Air Force civilian historian and is currently the chief of the Air National Guard history program. Air Force from 1964 to 1969 and retired as a colonel in 1994 after a long career in the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard.. He served on active duty in the U.S. in military history from The Ohio State University, has worked as a U.S. Gross, who holds a Ph.D. Charles J. He has written num
"both interesting and readable, and particularly valuable for its perspective on what military aviation promised and what it actually accomplished." -- Norman Polmar, Almanac of Seapower"Charles Gross has provided us with a fine survey that is unusual in its balance and its emphasis on jointness." -- Tami Davis Biddle, Parameters