The Transformation of American Air Power: Innovation and the Modern Military

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Reprint. Third printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xiii, [1], 337, [3] p. Illustrations. Footnotes. Index. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. From a RAND organization on-line posting: "Benjamin S. Lambeth is a Senior Research Associate at the RAND Corporation. In 1989 and 1990, he directed RAND's International Security and Defense Policy Program. Before joining RAND in 1974, he served in the Office of National Estimates at the Central Intelligence Agency. Prior to that, he worked for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Institute for Defense Analyses. A civil-rated pilot, he has flown or flown in more than 40 different fighter, attack, and jet trainer aircraft types with the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, as well as with eight foreign air forces. In 1988, he received a front-seat checkout in the F/A-18 Hornet. In December 1989, he became the first U.S. citizen to fly the Soviet MiG-29 fighter. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the author of The Transformation of American Air Power (Cornell University Press, 2000). In 2002, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Order of Daedalians, the national fraternity of U.S. military pilots." Condition: Very good / very good.

Keywords: NATO, Air Operations, Aerial Combat, Operation Rolling Thunder, Linebacker, Kosovo, Military Doctrine, Military Strategy, Post-Cold War

ISBN: 9780801438165

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