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AIR POWER IN THE AGE OF TOTAL WAR

SAASS 627
23 August 2021 - 28 September 2021

"This history course examines the development of air power and strategy in the crucible of the two World Wars."

Some materials listed below require access to subscription databases.  If you cannot gain access, contact your local library for availability.  AU students and faculty can contact the center's Web Maintainer for a password.

Internet Resources

Listed below is on-line information about books and their authors used in this course.  Some links may only be available on-base at Air University.

• Day 1:  Baptism of Fire and Crucible of Airpower Theory:  The Great War  (23 August)
  
  Lee Kennett     Obituary
  The First Air War:  1914-1918     Review 1     Review 2 
   
• Day 2:  Mitchell, ACTS, and the American Experience (24 August)
  
  William Mitchell    Biography
  Winged Defense:  The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power--Economic and Military     Review 
   
• Day 3:  Shrinking the Globe (26 August)
  
  Jennifer Van Vleck    Biography  (click on "About the Author", also includes book description)        Discussion about the book   (YouTube) (doesn’t work in .mil)
  Empire of the Air:  Aviation and the American Ascendancy     Review 1     Review 2 
   
• Day 4:  The German Experience (27 August)
  
  John Andreas Olsen    Short Biography
  A History of Air Warfare    Review 1    Review 2
  
  James Corum     Biography   (Book description & scroll down for "About the Author")
  The Luftwaffe:  Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940     Review 1     Review 2 
   
• Day 5:  The Battle of Britain (30 August)
  
  Stephen Bungay     Biography
  The Most Dangerous Enemy:  A History of the Battle of Britain     Interview     Review 
   
• Day 6:  The Air War in the Mediterranean
  
  Robert S. Ehlers    Curriculum Vitae     Biography
  The Mediterranean Air War:  Airpower and Allied Victory in World War II     Review 
   
• Day 7:  The Bomber Offensive:  Planning and Execution (2 September)
  
  Tami Davis Biddle        Curriculum Vitae
  Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare     Review 
   
• Day 8:  The Bomber Offensive:  The Target State (7 September)
  
  Adam Tooze     Biography
  The Wages of Destruction:  The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy     Review 1     Review 2  
   
• Day 9:  The Pacific:  The Carrier War (9 September)
  
  John Andreas Olsen    Short Biography
  A History of Air Warfare    Review 1    Review 2  
  
  Craig L. Symonds     Biography
  The Battle of Midway     Review 1      Review 2 
   
• Day 10:  The Pacific :  Before the Pivot (10 September)
  
  Thomas E. Griffith    Biography
  MacArthur's Airman:  General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific     Review 1     Review 2 
   
• Day 11:  Trash Hauling and International Relations (13 September)
  
  John D. Plating     Biography
  The Hump:  America's Strategy for Keeping China in World War II     Review 1     Review 2 
   
• Day 12:  World War II Reinterpreted? (14 September) 
  
  Phillips P. O'Brien    Biography
  How the War was Won:  Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II     Review 
   
• Day 13:  In-Class Essay (16 September)
   
• Day 14:  Battle of Crete:  Staff Ride Preparation
  
  Antony Beevor     Biography
  Crete:  The Battle and the Resistance     Review
   
• SAASS Field Practicum:  Greece and Crete (18-28 September)

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