Air Power History Book

	Editors' Preface
	Introduction
Pt. I	The First World War and the Inter-war Years
1	Learning in Real Time: The Development and Implementation of Air Power in the First World War	3
2	Achieving Air Ascendancy: Challenge and Response in British Strategic Air Defence, 1915-40	21
3	The Royal Naval Air Service: A Very Modern Service	51
4	The Luftwaffe and Lessons Learned in the Spanish Civil War	66
Pt. II	The Second World War
5	The Second World War as a Turning Point in Air Power	93
6	Maritime Air Power and the Second World War: Britain, the USA and Japan	125
7	A Neglected Turning Point in Air Power History: Air Power and the Fall of France	142
8	'Learning is Winning': Soviet Air Power Doctrine, 1935-41	173
9	The Development of Tactical Air Doctrine in North Africa, 1940-43	188
10	Logistics Doctrine and the Impact of War: The Royal Air Force's Experience in the Second World War	207
11	Australia and the War in the Pacific, 1942-45	224
Pt. III	The Gulf War 1991
12	Planning the Air Campaign: The Washington Perspective	249
13	The 1991 Bombing of Baghdad: Air Power Theory vs Iraqi Realities	258
14	The Gulf War and UK Air Power Doctrine and Practice	287
Pt. IV	Air Power in Regional Conflict
15	Solidifying The Foundation: Vietnam's Impact on the Basic Doctrine of the US Air Force	303
16	Air Power Victorious? Britain and NATO Strategy during the Kosovo Conflict	318
17	The Balkans: An Air Power Basket Case?	330
	Notes on Contributors	345
	Index	351