The Road to Total War
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, [1974 or 1975]. 23 cm, 197, usual library markings, boards soiled and some wear. More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, [1974 or 1975]. 23 cm, 197, usual library markings, boards soiled and some wear. More
Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1995. Presumed first edition/first pritning. Wraps. vii, 279 p. 26 cm. Illustrations (some figures pasted in). Notes. More
Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 2001. Revised Edition. Second printing thus. Wraps. vii, [1], 279, [1] pages. Figures. Tables. Notes. This is the Air War College Studies in National Security No. 3. The Air War College Studies in National Security series was established as a forum for research on topics that influence the national security of the United States. Contents: 1 Principles of War for the Battlefield of the Future; Overview: New Era Warfare? A Revolution In Military Affairs?; New-Era Warfare; The Revolution in Military Affairs; Overview: Future Airpower and Strategy Issues; Air Theory for the Twenty-First Century; Parallel War and Hyperwar: Is Every Want a Weakness?; Overview: Information Warfare Issues; Information War - Cyberwar - Netwar; Information Warfare: Impacts and Concerns; Overview: Biological Warfare Issues; The Biological Weapon: A Poor Nation's Weapon of Mass Destruction; Twenty-First Century Germ Warfare; Biological Weapons for Waging Economic Warfare; and 11 On Twenty-First Century Warfare. The United States Air Force Air War College is the senior Air Force professional military school. Annually, we prepare about 250 resident and over 5, 000 nonresident senior students from all US military services, federal agencies, and 41 nations to lead in the strategic environment-emphasizing the employment of airpower in joint operations. Our success is indisputable and demonstrated by our prestigious alumni and faculty. More
Maxwell Air Force Base: Air University, 2001. Revised Edition, Third Printing (second printing of Revised edition). Wraps. vii, [1], 279, [1] pages. Cover has some creasing and small chips Includes Disclaimer, Acknowledgments, and About the Contributors. Also includes illustrations of Elements of the Present RMA, System Model, and China and Iraq--Comparative Sizes, as well as tables on System Attributes, US Offensive Biological Weapons Agents Produced Between 1954-1969, and Estimated Cumulative Losses to the US from Selected Non-indigenous Species, 1906-1991. Barry Schneider was associated with The Society for Military History, part of Encyclopedia Britannica’s Publishing Partner Program. He was the Former Director, U.S. Air Force Counterproliferation Center, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He was the author of and contributor to numerous books, including The Gathering Biological Warfare Storm (2004); The World's Most Threatening Terrorist Networks and Criminal Gangs (2009); and Battlefield of the Future: 21st Century Warfare Issues. Lawrence E. Grinter was an Asian Historian and Professor for the U.S. Air Force Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, and was the editor of American War in Vietnam, among other studies of the Vietnam War. The United States Air Force Air War College is the senior Air Force professional military school. Annually, we prepare about 250 resident and over 5, 000 nonresident senior students from all US military services, federal agencies, and 41 nations to lead in the strategic environment-emphasizing the employment of airpower in joint operations. Our success is indisputable and demonstrated by our prestigious alumni and faculty. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1959. First Edition. First? Printing. 285, endpaper maps, address sticker on front endpaper & half-title, somewhat cocked, boards somewhat worn/soiled, some edge soiling. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. 23 cm. xiii, [1], 251, [7] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Introduction by Fred Charles Ikle. Scuff and minor loss at rear cover. Security consultant Jeffrey Simon is a visiting lecturer in the UCLA Department of Political Science and an authority on terrorist attacks in the United States. Simon researches and teaches courses on political violence, terrorism and security and he is the author of “Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the the Growing Threat” (2013). Simon is president of Political Risk Assessment Company, Inc., and his writings on terrorism, political violence, and political risk have appeared in many publications, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, Foreign Policy, and the New York Times. More
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. ix, [1], 153, [1] pages. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Includes Disclaimer and Foreword, as well as About the Author, Making of Bill Creech, Thinking about Air Warfare, Tools of the Trade, Organizing to Fight, Building Leaders, To Desert Storm and Beyond, Conclusions. Also includes four black and white figures (TAC sortie rates, FY 1969 - FY 1978; Example of sharing shortages; TAC sortie rates, FY 1969-1984; and Flying-hour Increases. Also includes two black and white photos (F-15E: Dual role, LANTIRN, PGMs, and the advanced medium-range air-to-air missile AMRAAM)--the complete package; and a photograph of President Reagan and Creech. One of the Tables is on US expenditures of precision-guided munitions (PGM) during the 1991 Gulf War. Some creasing to covers. General Creech shaped the Air force of today through his actions as the commander of Tactical Air Command from 178 until 1984. Under General Creech's leadership, the Tactical Air Command and the Tactical Air Forces writ large, underwent a transformation that, in large measure, built the Air Force that has fought so brilliantly in campaigns from Operation Desert Storm to the present global war on terrorism. James C. Slife (born 1967) is an American lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. He has served as the commander of Air Force Special Operations Command since June 2019, having previously served as the vice commander (July 2018 – June 2019) and chief of staff (June 2017 – June 2018) of United States Special Operations Command. More
Paris: Robert Laffont, 1964. 379, wraps, illus., usual library markings, some page browning, some wear and soiling to covers. Text is in French. More
Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, [1957]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 310, illus., index, boards worn at edges, boards slightly cocked, ink name on flyleaf. More
New York: Random House, 1972. First American Edition. First Thus? Printing. 31 cm, 264, illus. with 80 color plates and 559 black and white illus., bibliography, index, boards somewhat worn/soiled. More
New York: F. Fell, Inc., 1944. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 319, frontis illus., stamp on endpapers, pocket removed at rear, tape marks to DJ & bds, DJ worn, soiled, & small tears/chips. More
Washington, DC: Aerospace Education Found. c1982. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 419, illus., some wear to DJ edges. Foreword by General James H. Doolittle. More
Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International Publishers & Wholesalers Inc., 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 96 pages. Includes Introduction; Bibliography, Biography, and Index. Chapters include Chapter 1, Now you see it...; Chapter 2, Stealth in the sixties; Chapter 3, Design for Stealth; Chapter 4; Stealth fighter; Chapter 5, Stealth Bomber; and Chapter 6, Vanishing air force. Bill Sweetman (born 1956) is a former editor for Jane's and an editor for Aviation Week group. He is a writer of more than 50 books on military aircraft. He lives in Oakdale, Minnesota. He is noted for his dogged pursuit of the Aurora project. He appeared as an Aerospace Consultant on in the Nova PBS TV program "Battle of the X-Planes" about the Joint Strike Fighter Program. None of the material in this book has been obtained from classified sources. A writer needs classified data like a fish needs a bicycle. Not only is in unusable, but if it confirms a point which has been deduced or obtained elsewhere it may become impossible to use the legitimately obtained information. Some of the material in this book is drawn directly from open sources, technical papers, textbooks, catalogs, trade journals, and unclassified briefings. A few pieces of information in this book, such as the shapes of the principal Stealth aircraft under development, are based on unconfirmed reports, published and otherwise. More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 124 pages. Diagrams (three in color, two fold-outs, one two facing pages). Endpaper maps. Cover has some wear and soiling. Front board somewhat bowed. Pencil erasure residue on fep. This book comprises four lectures on "Air Power in War" which were delivered Field Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Tedder as the Lees Knowles Lectures, at Cambridge University in 1947. Its form is generally the same as that in which the lectures were actually delivered, and it represents the author's personal views. An edition for Service use only and not for re-publication has been issued by the Stationery Office. Airpower or air power comprises the application of military strategy and strategic theory to the realm of aerial warfare. Airpower began with the advent of powered flight early in the 20th century. Airpower represents a "complex operating environment that has been subjected to considerable debate" More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1977. Third Printing. 160, wraps, covers worn, soiled, and creased. Introduction by Sir B. H. Liddell Hart. More
Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 156, wraps, illus., binding error--missing pp. 141-150, contains most of the substance of the conference. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1946. 32, wraps, fold-out color maps, covers somewhat worn and faded, pages have darkened somewhat, crease at base of spine. More
Place_Pub: Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1987. Reprint Edition. 120, wraps, illus., ink name on bottom edge near spine, some highlighting to text. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. First Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 22 cm, 160 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Bibliography. The cover has some wear and soiling. This is one of Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, Weapons Book No. 6. Introduction by Air Vice-Marshal "Johnnie" Johnson. Studies the development and combat history of the famous R.A.F. fighter that won acclaim in the summer of 1940 during the Battle of Britain. John Vader (1919 - 2005) Australian author, living in the UK in the late 1960s and 1970s, most of whose work has been nonfiction, much of it dealing with military matters. John Vader saw World War II service with 6th AIF in Libya, Greece and Syria. He later transferred to the RAAF and flew Spitfires in the Pacific theater. Vader is reputed to have walked away from two Spitfire crashes, and flown a Wirraway bomber so low the propeller blades were bent. These combined experiences informed his war history writings. In the late sixties Vader went to London to work as a journalist; he wrote articles for Purnell's Magazine and became editor of a weekly journal. It was at this stage he was commissioned to write Spitfire (1969). It was followed by Pacific Hawk (1970), Anzac (1971) and New Guinea The Tide is Stemmed (1971), some of which were included in the Ballantine/Purnell Illustrated History of World War 2 series. His only science fiction novel, Battle of Sydney (1971), is an Alternate History of World War Two in which Australia is invaded by Japan; in the end the Invasion is unsuccessful. Some of Vader's war-themed books have been translated into Turkish, Japanese, Dutch, French and Portuguese. More
New York: Macmillan, [1969, c1968]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 373, illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendices, bibliography, references, index, usual library markings. More
New York: Macmillan, 1969. First American Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 373, illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendices, bibliography, references, index, front DJ flap price clipped, rear DJ soiled. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1986. 29 cm, 496, illus. (some color), 1 fold-out plate, map, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, usual library markings (some blacked out). More
Dulles, VA: Brassey's, Inc., 1992. First Printing. 160, wraps, illus., endnotes, bibliography, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1989. 1st Pergamon Edition. 160, illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. More
Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1989. 1st Pergamon-Brassey's printing. Hardcover. xxi, [1]. 160, [2] pages. Illustrations. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. Foreword by Bradley Hosmer. DJ has sticker and some wear. Introduction by Gen. Charles L. Donnelly, Jr., USAF. This is volume III of the Future Warfare Series. This was published with the Aerospace Education Foundation and the Air Force Association. John Ashley Warden III (born December 21, 1943) is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force. Warden is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. His Air Force career spanned 30 years, from 1965 to 1995, and included tours in Vietnam, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Korea, as well as assignments within the continental United States. Warden completed a number of assignments in the Pentagon, was a Special Assistant for Policy Studies and National Security Affairs to the Vice President of the United States, and was Commandant of the Air Command and Staff College. His impact on the future of air power in the United States Air Force is still being assessed. More