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Contents
- 1. Foundations
- 2. Beginnings: the First World War 1914–1918
- 3. Theory and practice: the interwar years 1919–1939
- 4. The Second World War: air operations in the West
- 5. The Second World War: the air war in the Pacific
- 6. Cold War 1945–1982
- 7. The apotheosis of air power 1983–2001
- 8. Aerostats to algorithms 2001–2020
- 9. Per ardua ad astra?
