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 Ideas, Concepts,
Doctrine: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force, 1907-1960, vol.
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Robert Frank Futrell
1989, 683 pages
ISBN: 1-58566-029-9
$31.00
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In this first of a two-volume study, Dr. Futrell presents a
chronological survey of the development of Air Force doctrine and thinking from
the beginnings of powered flight to the onset of the space age. He outlines the
struggle of early aviation enthusiasts to gain acceptance of the airplane as a
weapon and win combat-arm status for the Army Air Service (later the Army Air
Corps and Army Air Force). He surveys the development of airpower doctrine
during the 1930s and World War II and outlines the emergence of the autonomous
US Air Force in the postwar period. Futrell brings this first volume to a close
with discussions of the changes in Air Force thinking and doctrine necessitated
by the emergence of the intercontinental missile, the beginnings of space
exploration and weapon systems, and the growing threat of limited conflicts
resulting from the Communist challenge of wars of liberation.
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