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From Fabric Wings to Supersonic Fighters and Drones: A History of Military Aviation on Both Sides of the Northwest Frontier

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9781909982826

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Citing that key to any present-day military strategy is the employment of air power, Cloughley, Grau, and Roe note that it has been frequently overlooked or ignored in the historic record via the North-West frontier of India. While much has been written about land operations, public work on the historical use of air power in the region has often been limited or treated superficially. They aim to pull the historical narrative together into a coherent whole and to examine the advancement and challenge of air power over the North-West Frontier. They argue that there is much to be learned from the past that can be applied to the future and that some campaigns have more than others foreshadowed the coming pattern of modern war. Nine chapters are: aviation and guerrilla war; 'Pink's war'; good god, sir, are you hurt?; evacuation by air; the troublesome 1930s; air power in the frontier; aviation on the other side of the north-west frontier; 'busplat' and fallible humans; present-day parallels and prognostications. --ProtoView

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"Andrew M. Roe is a serving infantry officer, currently in command of the 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) in the eastern Mediterranean. He commissioned into the Green Howards in April 1992 and has held various command and staff positions in Northern Ireland, Germany, Gibraltar, Bosnia, Afghanistan, the Falkland Islands, Iraq and more recently, Cyprus. He is a graduate of the US Army Command and Staff College and the School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds a PhD from King’s College, London and is the author of ""Waging War in Waziristan: The British Struggle in the Land of Bin Laden, 1847-1947"". His published articles are many and wide-ranging and include such topics as T.E. Lawrence, the employment of air control in the Middle East and sea-trout fishing in the Falkland Islands. Dr Lester W. Grau is a retired US Army infantry officer who fought in South Vietnam and who served as a Russian-speaking Soviet Foreign Area Officer during the Cold War. Les served in a variety of command and staff positions with postings in Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea and Moscow. He is the author of six books on Afghanistan, a book on Chechnya, mountain combat and Soviet partisan combat. In addition, he has published over two hundred articles on Soviet and Russian tactics, Afghanistan, urban combat and geopolitical topics. He has been a frequent visitor to Central and Southern Asia and was a CENTCOM Fellow. He currently is a Senior Analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where he researches foreign understandings of contemporary and future geopolitical issues. Brian Cloughly served in the British and Australian armies, and saw active service in Borneo and Vietnam. His tours of duty included attachments with the Jordan Desert Police Force (when it was camel-borne) and the Sarawak Rangers, posts as an intelligence officer in Cyprus at the end of British rule, as a reconnaissance and survey officer in a nuclear missile regiment in Germany and Staff Officer (Force Structure) in Australian Army HQ. He was Deputy Head of the United Nations Mission in Kashmir for three years, and Australian defence attaché in Islamabad for five years. He writes on military affairs, especially in connection with the sub-continent and updates defence sections on sub-continent countries for HIS/Jane’s Sentinel. His books include ""The Story of the Royal Artillery's Boy Trumpeters"" and ""A History of the Pakistan Army""."

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