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Airpower for Strategic Effect

Airpower for Strategic Effect

Airpower for Strategic Effect

Colin S. Gray / Colin SGray

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Books Express Publishing
Año de edición:
2012
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Relaciones internacionales
ISBN:
9781780397863
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Airpower for Strategic Effect is intended to contribute to the understanding of airpower-what it is, what it does, why it does it, and what the consequences are. This is the plot: airpower generates strategic effect. Airpower’s product is strategic effect on the course of strategic history. Everything about military airpower is instrumental to the purpose of securing strategic effect.

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