The Icarus Syndrome: The Role of Air Power Theory in the Evolution and Fate of the U.S. Air Force

1994 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Eliot A. Cohen ◽  
Carl H. Builder
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Author(s):  
Frank Ledwidge

‘The Second World War: air operations in the West’ considers the air capabilities of the main actors of the Second World War including the Polish air force, the German Luftwaffe, the Soviet air force, Britain’s Royal Air Force, and the US Army Air Corps. It discusses the strategies employed by the different forces during the various stages of the war, including securing the control of the air during the Battle of Britain in 1940, which demonstrated that a defensive air campaign could have strategic and political effect. The improving technology throughout the war is discussed along with role of air power at sea, and the results and controversy of the bombing war in Europe.


1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 87-107
Author(s):  
Donald J. Barrett ◽  
James W. Hopkins ◽  
M. Douglas Johnson

Author(s):  
Brian D. Laslie

Chapter Five demonstrates that Kuter’s reputation as an organizer led him to be ordered to North Africa. In January of 1943, Eisenhower consolidated his North African air power into an Allied Air Force. Eisenhower placed “Tooey” Spaatz in overall command with the U.S. Twelfth Air Force and the British Eastern Air Command under him. To help him organize the Allied Air Force Carl A. Spaatz wanted Brigadier General Laurence S. Kuter, to come to Algiers to help coordinate air units widely separated and weakly connected by centralized command. Kuter greatly aided in this and also in linking air and ground operations. In this assignment Kuter crossed paths and crossed words with ground commanders including General George Patton.


Author(s):  
Brian D. Laslie

As commander of the Air University, This was Kuter’s second assignment to Maxwell. Here, General Kuter set about improving officer education. He raised the Air Command and Staff School, formally ACTS, to a college level that instructed mid-grade officers in the application of air power. He also oversaw the Squadron Officer's Course for development of company-grade officers as well. Kuter developed the Air University along the models of actual colleges with a staff and faculty to handle all levels of professional military education in the U.S. Air Force. This proved to be somewhat of a golden age of education as Kuter helped bring back many of the senior leaders of World War II to speak to the student body.


2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-203
Author(s):  
Phillip S. Meilinger

AbstractWar Narratives, unit histories, memoirs, and letters home from the combatants offer good accounts, but they cannot always convey the tension, violence, fear, dedication, futility, and chance that are so a part of war and that are more easily drawn by a good novelist. This review article discusses the ten top air war novels involving the U.S. Air Force (or the U.S. Army Air Forces as it was known during World War II) and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. These ten novels most accurately reflect the unique character, culture, and achievements of air power in those Asian wars.


2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
Jonathan Thomas ◽  
Gabriel Almario

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