Index
295 Italic page numbers refer to photographs. A3J, 218 A4D, 218 A-4M fighter bomber, 164, 165 A-4, 160, 257 AASF (Advanced Air Striking Force), 70, 71 Achille Lauro, 228, 232 AD-6, 218 Aerial Artillery (Agokas), 125 Aerial League of the British Empire, 38 aerial reconnaissance, 3, 192, 194, 199; balloons, nineteenth-century, 177–178; Cuban Revolution and, 216, 217; over China, 253, 255, 256; Soviet Union, interwar years, 128, 129; U-2 flights, 26, 193, 196, 253, 255; WWI, 120; WWII, 277 aerial refueling, 21, 198, 201–202, 262 Aerial Warfare (Hearne), 39 Aeroflot, 18 Aeroplane, The, 39 Afghanistan: British airpower, interwar years and, 16, 282, 283; Soviet Union and, 31, 200; U.S. war in, 32, 205, 230, 231, 233 Agokas, E. V., 125 air bases (airfields, airstrips): China and, 243, 250–251; Gulf War of 1990–1991 and, 204; Korean War and, 247; technology and, 8, 279; U.S. post–WWII, 22, 203; Vietnam War and, 233; WWII and, 8, 277, 284 Airbus, 22 Air Component (British), 70 aircraft (planes): all-metal, 8, 50, 127; early, 2, 4, 7, 9, 17, 43–47, 44, 46, 118–120; jet engine aircraft vs. propeller planes, 145–146; maintenance and repair of, 10–11, 145–146, 167, 282–283; range and endurance of, 8, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25; reconnaissance, postwar, 26, 193, 194, 196, 199, 253, 255; stealth aircraft, vii, 200, 262, 279. See also bombers (bomber force, bomber squadrons); fighter aircraft (fighters); Luftwaffe; People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF); RAF (British Royal Air Force); U.S. Air Force (USAF) aircraft carriers: Arab-Israeli War and, 224; Bay of Pigs and, 218; China and, 262, 266; crisis situations postWWII and, 209–210, 231–234, 236; India-Pakistan (Bangladesh) War and, 221–222; Iranian hostage crisis and, 227; Iraq and, 228–231; Korean War and, 213–214, 234n6; post-1945 development of, 11, 189, 190, 210–211; in recent times, vii, 32, 33, 231; SS Mayaguez incident and, 26, 198, 212, 225–226; U.S. pre-WWII, 183; USS Pueblo incident and, 219–220; Vietnam War and, 219, 222–223, 225; World War II, 8, 26–27, 211, 277 aircraft factories: Britain, WWI, 46; Germany, interwar years, 99, 100, 123; in Imperial Russia, 119–120; Index 296 Index aircraft factories (cont.) Soviet Union, interwar years, 133– 134. See also aviation (air, aircraft) industry aircrews (airmen). See pilots Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB), 16 air defense/antiaircraft defense: antiaircraft artillery (AAA) (China), 239, 249, 252, 256, 257, 261; antiballistic missile defense systems, U.S., 201, 202–203; Cuban Revolution and, 156; in Ecuador, 162; Germany, 1938, 102–103; Germany, WWII and, 106, 110; in Libya, 2011, 33; RAF, interwar years, 5, 16; RAF, WWI, 3, 4, 40, 42; RAF, WWII, 110, 278; Soviet Union, interwar years, 126; United States, postwar and, 189, 192 Air Defense Command (ADC) (U.S. Air Force), 192 airfields. See air bases (airfields, airstrips) air forces. See Armée de l’Air; Japanese air force; Luftwaffe; People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) (Chinese air force); RAF (British Royal Air Force); Regia Aeronautica; U.S. Air Force (USAF); VVS-RKKA (Military Air Forces of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army) Air France, 5, 12, 18 air-launched cruise missile (ALCM), 200 air mail, 8 Air Ministry, British, WWI, 4 Air Navigation Act (Britain), 18, 20 airpower: air shows and, 2, 95, 123, 164, 188; China, in recent times, 11, 237–238; Chinese doctrine and, 239–241; Churchill and, 4–5, 18, 27, 39, 42, 46, 287; Cold War and, 10, 11, 23–24, 26, 28, 203, 278; colonial policing with, 4–5, 34, 39, 47–48, 50, 282, 283; components of, vii, ix, 16; crisis situations post-WWII and, 232–234; Cuban Revolution and, 150–158, 217– 218; defined (USAF), 239–240, 267n5; disarmament efforts and, 181; Douhet’s vision, WWI, 40, 42–43, 44–45, 121; Douhet’s vision of, 3, 9–10, 15, 48, 49–50, 61, 88, 178, 179, 187, 274; Douhet’s vision of, and Soviet Union, 121–122, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 133; first use of, in warfare, 1, 13–14; fiscal issues and, 12–13, 18–22, 280; German theories of, interwar, 91–93, 110; limitations of, 286–287; long-distance flights and, 5, 17, 22–23, 128, 131, 180; Middle East and, post-WWII, 30, 30–32; navigation, WWII, 21–22; one hundred years of, 205, 273; in the Pacific, WWII, 196, 276, 277...
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