Strategic Air Power: The Pattern Of Dynamic Security by Stefan Thomas Possony is a comprehensive book that explores the history, development, and strategic use of air power in modern warfare. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of air power in military strategy and its impact on global security.The author begins by tracing the origins of air power and its early development during World War I. He then examines the impact of air power on World War II, including the bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan. ...
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Strategic Air Power: The Pattern Of Dynamic Security by Stefan Thomas Possony is a comprehensive book that explores the history, development, and strategic use of air power in modern warfare. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of air power in military strategy and its impact on global security.The author begins by tracing the origins of air power and its early development during World War I. He then examines the impact of air power on World War II, including the bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan. The book also looks at the development of nuclear weapons and their impact on air power strategy during the Cold War.Possony argues that air power has become an essential component of modern military strategy, providing a flexible and effective means of projecting force across vast distances. He also explores the challenges of maintaining air superiority in the face of increasingly sophisticated anti-aircraft defenses.Throughout the book, Possony emphasizes the importance of strategic planning and the need for a coordinated approach to air power. He also discusses the ethical and moral implications of using air power in warfare, and the need for careful consideration of the potential consequences.Overall, Strategic Air Power: The Pattern Of Dynamic Security is a thought-provoking and informative book that provides a comprehensive overview of the history, development, and strategic use of air power in modern warfare. It is an essential read for military historians, strategists, and anyone interested in the role of air power in global security.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Edition:
First Edition [stated], presumed first printing
Publisher:
Infantry Journal Press
Published:
1949
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15796631226
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Good in Fair jacket. xii, [2], 313, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Name of previous owner on fep. DJ has wear, tears, chips, and soiling. The front of the DJ appears to have the image of the Northrop N-1M which led to the jet powered YB-49 of 1947. Predecessor of a current stealth bomber. Stefan Thomas Possony (March 15, 1913-April 26, 1995) was an Austrian-born US economist and military strategist and a Senior Fellow and director of International Studies at the Hoover Institution. He conceived the US Strategic Defense Initiative. He was with William Kintner and Robert Strausz-Hupé a coauthor of the influential Cold War strategy treatise The Protracted Conflict, and in 1968 was co-author with Jerry Pournelle and Francis X. Kane of The Strategy of Technology. One of the chapters of Strategy of Technology was "Assured Survival, " an argument against the prevailing strategy of "Assured Destruction" that argued strongly for strategic defense including defense against ICBMs. A comprehensive survey of the possibilities and limitations of strategic bombardment, in which the author is less sanguine concerning the decisive rôle of this form of warfare than most of the air enthusiasts. This work has been described as a thoroughly documented, objective, and readable analysis of strategic bombing.
