C-17 Globemaster III

C-17 Globemaster III

Aaron Aaberg

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Independently Published
Año de edición:
2025
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Relaciones internacionales
ISBN:
9798901947210

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For more than three decades, one aircraft has quietly underwritten the speed, reach, and credibility of Western power. From the opening hours of modern wars to the desperate first days of global disasters, the C-17 Globemaster III has become the indispensable instrument of strategic mobility, carrying not only troops and machines but the very capacity to act across distance at will. Wherever events moved faster than diplomacy, wherever infrastructure lay in ruins, wherever time itself became the decisive factor, the C-17 was already in the sky.This book tells the complete, fact-based story of how the C-17 came to dominate global airlift: from its Cold War origins and turbulent development to its defining role in Afghanistan, Iraq, humanitarian mega-disasters, medical evacuation, and great-power deterrence in the 21st century. Blending engineering, geopolitics, logistics, and human endurance into a single narrative, C-17 Globemaster III: How the West Moves reveals how strategic mobility reshaped modern warfare and disaster response-and how one aircraft program became the logistical backbone of Western power projection.

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