Pub Date : 2020-03-26DOI: 10.1093/actrade/9780198804314.003.0004
Frank Ledwidge
‘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.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-26DOI: 10.1093/actrade/9780198804314.003.0005
Frank Ledwidge
‘The Second World War: the air war in the Pacific’ describes the maritime and air operations in the Pacific that were truly epic in scale. It outlines the strategic bombing in the Far East as well as the two atomic raids carried out on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Prior to the atomic strikes on Japan, strategic bombing to coerce capitulation had failed in the combined operations against Germany. Even then, it seems likely now that the atomic raids contributed to rather than caused Japanese surrender. Command of the air was indispensable. However, air power alone could not deliver success. When used as a component of an integrated pragmatically founded strategy, it was nonetheless vital.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-26DOI: 10.1093/actrade/9780198804314.003.0001
Frank Ledwidge
For decades air power has been the primary tool used by major powers to coerce recalcitrant opponents. Aircraft have fundamentally changed the conduct of war on land and at sea at the tactical level. The principles of deployment have changed little over the last century; only the technology has altered. ‘Foundations’ describes the four roles of air power: control of the air; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; attack; and mobility. Without a significant degree of control of the air, the other three elements are impossible to achieve. It also explains that military air operations exist within a number of physical and conceptual dimensions. First and foremost is logistics.
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