David E. Omissi. Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force 1919–1939. (Studies in Imperialism.) Manchester: Manchester University Press; distributed by St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y. 1990. Pp. xvi, 260. $79.95.

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-174
Author(s):  
Robin Higham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Royal Air Force

4. The Second World War

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Frank Ledwidge
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Us Army ◽  
The Us ◽  
Political Effect ◽  
Second World

‘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.

The RAF Staff College in the Interwar Years

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Peter W. Gray
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Defence Studies ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Power Studies ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
Education Courses

This chapter traces the RAF's emphasis since the mid-1970s on the conceptual component of air power, discussing among other themes the creation of the Director of Defence Studies and the Royal Air Force Centre for Air and Space Power Studies. Further it describes the aims and benefits of the integration of university faculty into upper level air force education courses and the equally productive placement of selected RAF officers in a range of academic programs in first ranked UK universities where the mix with civilian students provides additional benefits. These 'CAS fellowships' have produced, say the authors, 300 officers with unique perspectives which guarantee that RAF servicemen and women deliver quality intellectual input into questions of national security, ensuring that matters of air and space power are authoritatively articulated.

Technology and Air Power

1964 ◽  
Vol 68 (639) ◽  
pp. 165-168
Author(s):  
Robert Cockburn
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Successive Generations ◽  
Formative Years

It is a great privilege to have been invited to give the 1963 Trenchard Memorial Lecture, and I welcome the opportunity to pay tribute to the memory of a great soldier and airman. Lord Trenchard's deep understanding of the meaning of air power, his single-minded insistence on its proper use, and his dedicated leadership of the Royal Air Force during its formative years, will continue to inspire successive generations of airmen. It is appropriate that the Royal Aeronautical Society's Trenchard Memorial Lecture should be given here at Henlow before an audience of young airmen; for it will be their responsibility to master the new techniques on which will depend the continued evolution of air power.

Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force 1919-1939.

1992 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 557
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Headrick ◽  
David E. Omissi
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Royal Air Force
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