Building a Strategic Air Force

✍ Scribed by Walton S Moody

• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 537
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Description This authoritative official history deals with the early years of the Air Force's effort to build and maintain a strategic striking force, from 1945 through 1953. It discusses the period of reorganization in national defense in the years after the end of the Second World War, as the Army Air Forces dealt with questions of structure, doctrine, strategy, atomic weapons, and technology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front......Page 1
Foreword......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Contents......Page 19
Photographs......Page 21
Part I - Postwar Reorganization, 1945-1947......Page 23
I. Air Power and the Airmen: 1945......Page 25
II. The Case for a Postwar Air Force......Page 51
III. The Beginings of a Strategic Air Force......Page 89
IV. The Uncertain Phase......Page 135
Part II - Austerity and Strategic Air Power, 1947-1950......Page 175
V. Decision for a Strategic Air Force......Page 177
VI. The Year of Crisis......Page 209
VII. The Priority Mission......Page 257
VIII. Challenges to Strategy......Page 305
Part III - Expansion of the Strategic Force, 1950-1953......Page 359
IX. Limited War, Atomic Plenty, and Rearmament......Page 361
X. "Never Before Surpassed"......Page 415
Conclusion......Page 485
Glossary......Page 495
Bibliography......Page 501
Index......Page 519