Here is why Airpower always failed...until Desert Storm

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Biddle, Tami; Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare – The Evolution of British and American Ideas About Strategic Bombing, 1914 – 1945, Princeton University Press, Princeton: 2002.

von Clausewitz, Carl; Vom Kriege, 20. Auflage, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg: 2013.

Cohen, Eliot; Gulf War Air Power Survey Volume II, United States Department of the Air Forces, Washington D.C.: 1993.

Deaile, Melvin; Always at War – Organisational Culture in Strategic Air Command, 1946-62, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis: 2018.

Faber, Peter; Paradigm Lost: Airpower Theory and Its Historical Struggles, p. 19 in Olsen, John; Airpower Reborn – The Strategic Concepts of John Warden and John Boyd, Naval Institute Press: 2015.

Hallion, Richard; America As a Military Aerospace Nation, p. 29 in Olsen, John; Airpower Applied – U.S., NATO, and Israeli Combat Experience, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis: 2017.

Hinen, Anthony; Kosovo: The Limits of Air Power II, Air University, n.D..

MacMillan, Norman; The Chosen Instrument, John Lane The Bodley Head, London: 1938.

Stephens, Alan; Fifth-Generation Strategy, p. 135, in Olsen, John; Airpower Reborn: the Strategic Concepts of John Warden and John Boyd, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis: 2015.

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- Timecodes -
00:00 - Disclaimer
00:10 - Airpower Theory: A New Paradigm?
02:02 - The Beliefs of Aeromaniacs
04:38 - Korean to Vietnam War: Strategic vs Tactical Airpower
06:24 - Reading recommendations [sponsored segment]
07:26 - Vietnam War: Where It Goes Wrong
08:22 - Airpower Redux
10:01 - Desert Storm
12:41 - 5th Gen, Space, and Buzzwords
13:43 - Naval Institute Press: 25% OFF [sponsored segment]
14:54 - Outro

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