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  • Submarine Operational Effectiveness in the 20th Century
    Captain John F. O’Connell USN (RET.) / Captain John FO'Connell USN (RET.) / Captain John FO’Connell USN (RET.)
    The submarine emerged as a serious weapons system during the First World War (1914 - 1918). During that conflict Germany with its unrestricted submarine warfare campaign of 1917 nearly drove Great Britain to the negotiating table. Its U-boats sank 6,196 ships of 13,438,632 gross register tons. Despite post-war attempts to ban the submarine from warfare, it survived. Both It...
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    17,09 €

  • Submarine Operational Effectiveness in the 20th Century
    Captain John F. O’Connell USN (Ret.) / Captain John FO'Connell USN (RET.) / Captain John FO’Connell USN (RET.)
    A very new weapons system, the lurking submarine with its self-propelled torpedoes fired from ambush changed the complexion of naval warfare forever. Both warships and merchant ships were at risk. In 1914 U-boats demonstrated their capability to sink major warships. During 1915 they turned their attention to merchant ships and began to sink or capture them in wholesale lots. U-...
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    18,69 €

  • The Effectiveness of Airpower in the 20th Century
    John F O'Connell / John F O’Connell
    The book is the second in a series of three dealing with the demonstrated effectiveness of airpower during the 20th Century.The air forces and airpower theories of France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the USSR and the United States are described as they operated and found their pre-war airpower theories valid or wanting when subjected to the acid test of combat.The fai...
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    18,84 €

  • The Effectiveness of Airpower in the 20th Century
    John F O'Connell / John F O’Connell
    The book is the first in a series of three volumes which explore the actual effectiveness of airpower during the 20th Century. It deals with the functions of military airpower that emerged during World War I on the Eastern and Western Fronts and in the Middle East.German strategic bombing campaigns against England by Zeppelins and Gotha bombers are described, as is their defea...
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    15,86 €

  • The Effectiveness of Airpower in the 20th Century
    Capt John F. O’Connell Usn (Ret) / Capt John FO'Connell Usn (Ret) / Capt John FO’Connell Usn (Ret)
    The book reviews the actual effectiveness of military air power in accomplishing desired military and political goals in a number of conflicts following WWII.During the Korean War and the Vietnam War, U.S. air power attempted a re-run of WWII aerial activities. However, in both conflicts, poltical constraints prevented the United States from achieving its desired political res...
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    13,53 €