The Influence of Airpower upon History: Statesmanship, Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy since 1903

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Contents Foreword vii Richard B. Myers Introduction 1 Robin Higham 1. States and Strategic Airpower: Continuity and Change, 1906–1939 37 John H. Morrow Jr. 2. Politics and French Aviators: A Prism on the International European Crises of the 1930s 61 Patrick Facon 3. Hitler, Airpower, and Statecraft 85 Richard R. Muller 4. The Emperor and the Despot: Statesmen, Patronage, and the Strategic Bomber in Imperial and Soviet Russia, 1909–1959 115 David R. Jones 5. Statesmen and Airpower in Latin America, 1945–2010 145 René De La Pedraja 6. Presidential Statesmen and U.S. Airpower: Personalities and Perceptions 177 Jeffery S. Underwood 7. Gunboat Diplomacy: Presidential Use of Aircraft Carriers and Their Embarked Air Wings 209 Douglas V. Smith and Kent S. Coleman 8. Chinese Statesmen and the Use of Airpower 237 Andrew S. Erickson 9. A Century of Airpower 273 Mark Parillo List of Contributors 289 Index 295 ...