Air Power The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II Hardback - 2004
by Budiansky, Stephen
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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It was an age of miracles.
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- Author Budiansky, Stephen
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- Pages 528
- Language EN
- Publisher Viking Adult, New York
- Date April 12, 2004
- ISBN 9780670032853
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