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AIR POWER IN AN AGE OF LIMITED WAR
SAASS 628
24 August 2023 - 19 September 2023
"SAASS 628 examines the history of air power from the end of the Second World War to the present. The purpose of this course is to consider how air power relates to strategy."
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Internet Resources
Listed below is on-line information about books and their authors used in this course.
Day 1 (24 August)
Ronald H. Spector Biography
A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955 Review 1 Review 2
Day 2 (25 August)
Andrei Cherny Biography
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour Review 1 Review 2
Day 3 (28 August)
Conrad Crane Biography
American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953 Review 1 Review 2
Day 4 (29 August)
Xiaoming Zhang
Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea Review 1 Review 2
Day 5 (31 August)
Campbell Craig Biography
Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War Review 1 Review 2
Edward Kaplan Biography
To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction Review 1 Review 2
Day 6 (5 September)
Mark Bowden Biography
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam Review 1 Review 2
Day 7 (6 September)
Stephen Randolph Biography (may not open in .mil) Interview and Discussions (C-SPAN Video Library)
Powerful and Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive Review Publisher Description
Day 8 (8 September)
Lien-Hang Nguyen Biography
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam Review 1 Review 2
Day 9 (11 September)
John Andreas Olsen Biography (Includes review of the book)
John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power Review 1 Review 2
Day 10 (12 September)
Dag Henriksen Biography (Scroll Down to pg xx)
NATO's Gamble: Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999 Review 1 Review 2
Phil Haun Biography
Colin Jackson Biography
Tim Schultz Biography
Air Power in the Age of Primacy: Air Warfare since the Cold War Publisher Description (click on "Information")
Day 11 (14 September)
Phil Haun Biography
Colin Jackson Biography
Tim Schultz Biography
Air Power in the Age of Primacy: Air Warfare since the Cold War Publisher Description (click on "Information")
Day 12 (15 September)
Andrew Mumford Biography
The West's War Against Islamic State: Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq Review 1 Review 2
Phil Haun Biography
Colin Jackson Biography
Tim Schultz Biography
Air Power in the Age of Primacy: Air Warfare since the Cold War Publisher Description (click on "Information")
Day 13 (18 September)
Fred M. Kaplan Biography (Publisher page)
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War Review
Day 14 (19 September)
All Course Texts
Staff Ride Material
Kenneth Werrell
Did USAF Technology Fail in Vietnam? (Article from Airpower Journal, Spring 1998)
Mark Clodfelter
Of Demons, Storms, and Thunder: A Preliminary Look at Vietnam's Impact on the Persian Gulf Air Campaign (Article from Airpower Journal, Winter 1991)
John Farquhar
Air Power and Irregular War (Article from Air & Space Power Journal, Spring 2017)
Jessica M. Frazier
Collaborative Efforts to End the War in Viet Nam: The Interactions of Women Strike for Peace, the Vietnamese Women's Union, and the Women's Union of Liberation, 1965-1968 (Article from Peace and Change, 2012)
Sandra C. Taylor
Long-Haired Women, Short-Haired Spies: Gender, Espionage, and America's War in Vietnam (Article from Intelligence and National Security, 1998) Click on "View PDF"
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