Aerial warfare : the battle for the skies.

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 AERIAL WARFARE: The Battle for the Skies
 Copyright
 CONTENTS
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
 1: Foundations
 Anatomy of an Air Strike
 The Four Roles of Air Power: Control of the Air
 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
 Attack
 Mobility
 Dimensions
 2: Beginnings: The First World War 1914-1918
 Reconnaissance
 Control of the Air
 Attack
 Strategic Bombing in WW1
 Air Power at Sea
 Setting the Terms of Air Power
 3: Theory and Practice: The Interwar Years 1919-1939
 Supplying the Structures: Independent Air Forces. Providing the IdeasDeveloping the Aircraft
 Rise of the Fighter
 Strategic Bombing Begins in Earnest: Spain and China 1936-9
 4: The Second World War: Air Operations in the West
 Air Power on the Battlefield 1939-45
 Securing Control of the Air: The Battle of Britain 1940
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 The Bombing War in Europe: Results and Controversy
 Air Power at Sea
 5: The Second World War: The Air War in the Pacific
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 Strategic Bombing in the Far East
 The Atomic Raids. Air Power in WW : A Conclusion6: Cold War 1945-1982
 Attack
 Control of the Air
 Reconnaissance
 Strategic Air Mobility Comes of Age
 New Technology
 The Korean War
 Wars of National Liberation 1945-79
 The Vietnam War
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Israeli Wars 1947-82
 The Indo-Pakistan Wars 1947-71
 Air Power and the Maritime Domain
 Conclusion
 7: The Apotheosis of Air Power 1983-2001
 Warden and Neoclassical Air-Power Theory
 The Rise of Precision
 Stealth, Reconnaissance, and Intelligence
 The Gulf Wars in the Air 1980-91
 The First Gulf War. Coercion in Humanitarian War: The Balkan Wars 1991-9Conclusion
 8: Aerostats to Algorithms 2001-2018
 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq
 Contingency Operations 2003-18
 The Drones Come of Age
 A Return to High-End Conflict?
 Cyber and the Information Domain
 9: Per Ardua ad Astra?
 REFERENCES
 1. Foundations
 2. Beginnings: The First World War 1914-1918
 3. Theory and Practice: The Interwar Years 1919-1939
 4. The Second World War: Air Operations in the West
 5. The Second World War: The Air War in the Pacific
 6. Cold War 1945-1982
 7. The Apotheosis of Air Power 1983-2001. 8. Aerostats to Algorithms 2001-20189. Per Ardua ad Astra?
 FURTHER READING
 INDEX.