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AIR POWER IN THE AGE OF TOTAL WAR
SAASS 627
22 August 2022 - 23 September 2022
"This course is a survey of air power history from its inception through the end of World War II and the dawn of the Nuclear Age."
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Internet Resources
Listed below is on-line information about books and their authors used in this course.
- Day 1: The First Air War (22 August)
John Andreas Olsen Short Biography
A History of Air Warfare Review 1 Review 2
- Day 2: Interwar America (23 August)
William Mitchell Biography
Our Air Force: The Keystone of National Defense Review
- Day 3: Shrinking the Globe (25 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: Interwar Germany (26 August)
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 (29 August)
Stephen Bungay Biography (doesn’t work in .mil)
The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain Interview (doesn’t work in .mil) Review
- Day 6: CBO: Analysis (30 August)
Tami Davis Biddle Short Biography (scroll down to "Author information")
Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare Review
- Day 7: Soviet Air Power (1 September)
Ilya Grinberg Biography
Von Hardesty Biography
Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in WWII Book Description
- Day 8: The Target State (6 September)
Adam Tooze Biography
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy Review 1 Review 2
- Day 9: Naval Air Power (8 September)
Craig L. Symonds Biography
The Battle of Midway Review
- Day 10: SW Pacific (9 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: The Hump (12 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? (13 September)
Phillips P. O'Brien Biography
How the War was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II Review
- Day 13: The Course Exam (15 September)
- Day 14: Staff Ride (16 September)
Max Hastings Biography
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy Review
- SAASS Field Practicum (19-23 September)
The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945
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