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AIR POWER IN THE AGE OF LIMITED WAR

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AIR POWER IN THE AGE OF LIMITED WAR

SAASS 628

31 October 2024 - 3 December 2024

SAASS 628 "explores the story of airpower in the "age of limited war," running from late 1945 to the present day."


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 Database Request Page for a password.


Internet Resources

Listed below is on-line information about books and their authors used in this course.


31 October 2024

Andrei Cherny      Biography
The Candy Bombers:  The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour     Review 1     Review 2 

1 November 2024

Allan R. Millett       Biography
Peter Maslowski    
William B. Feis       Biography 
For the Common Defense:  A Military History of the United States from 1607 to 2012       Review

Conrad Crane       Biography
American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953    Review 1     Review 2 

4 November 2024 

Xiaoming Zhang     
Red Wings over the Yalu:  China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea     Review 1      Review 2 

5 November 2024 

Edward Kaplan     Biography
To Kill Nations:  American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction     Review 1     Review 2

Austin Long     Biography
Brendan Rittenhouse Green     Biography  (May not open in .mil)
Stalking the Secure Second Strike:  Intelligence, Counterforce, and Nuclear Strategy    (Article)

7 November 2024 

Walter A. McDougall     Biography
The Heavens and the Earth:  A Political History of the Space Age      Review 1    Review 2 

8 November 2024 

Vietnam Decision Simulation Documents

Mark Moyar    Biography   (Scroll Down)
Triumph Forsaken:  The Vietnam War, 1954-1965       Review

12 November 2024 

Mark Clodfelter     Biography
The Limits of Air Power:  The American Bombing of North Vietnam    Review 1     Review 2 

14 November 2024 

Stephen Randolph        Biography    Interview and Discussions  (C-SPAN Video Library)
Powerful and Brutal Weapons:  Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive     Review 

15 November 2024 

Lien-Hang Nguyen   Biography
Hanoi's War:  An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam     Review 1     Review 2 

18 November 2024 

Hal Brands     Biography 
Making of the Unipolar Moment:  U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order     Review 1     Review 2

19 November 2024 

Benjamin S. Lambeth       Biography
The Transformation of American Air Power       Review 

21 November 2024 

Kevin M. Woods     Biography
The Mother of All Battles:  Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War    Review

22 November 2024 

Dag Henriksen   Biography   
NATO's Gamble:  Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999    Review 1     Review 2
 

Andrew L. Stigler   Biography
"Hoping for Victory:  Coercive Air Power and NATO's Strategy in Kosovo"    (Book Chapter in:  Air Power in the Age of Primacy:  Air Warfare since the Cold War )

2 December 2024 

Christopher S. Chivvis     Biography
Toppling Qaddafi:  Libya and the Limits of Liberal Intervention      Review

3 December 2024 

Becca Wasser    Biography
The Air War Against the Islamic State:  The Role of Airpower in Operation Inherent Resolve    (RAND)


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