Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force, 1919-1939Manchester University Press, 1990 - 260 Seiten Between the world wars the main task of the RAF was to crush tribal rebellions against British rule. This study, based almost entirely on unpublished documents, shows how the independent peacetime role of air policing ensured the survival of the RAF during the lean financial times after WWI. Its analysis of rebellion and imperial violence is of interest to a broad audience. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Inhalt
Iraq and the survival of the RAF 192025 | 25 |
The extension of air control | 39 |
The limits of air substitution | 60 |
The geographical environment of air policing | 84 |
Indigenous responses to air policing | 107 |
Conclusion | 132 |
Criticisms of air policing | 162 |
Air policing and air disarmament | 177 |
Comparisons | 184 |
General conclusion | 210 |
Biographical notes 237 | 237 |
Bibliography | 245 |
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Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force, 1919-1939 David E. Omissi Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1990 |
Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force, 1919-1939 David E. Omissi Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1990 |
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