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Fulcrum of power : essays on the United States Air Force and national security / Herman S. Wolk.

by Wolk, Herman S., 1931-2010.

[Washington, DC] : Air Force History and Museums Program, 2003.

United States. Air Force -- History.

Aeronautics, Military -- United States -- History.

Air power -- United States.

vi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

World War II. The first air staff -- Doolittle: renaissance man of aviation -- Prelude to war -- The Overlord Air controversy -- The genius of George C. Kenney -- General Arnold, the atomic bomb, and the surrender of Japan -- The postwar world. The quiet victory -- The strategic world of 1946 -- Planning and organizing the Air Force -- Arnold, Eisenhower, and Norstad : the fight for air independence -- Men who made the Air Force -- When the color line ended -- Roles and missions. The defense unification battle, 1947-50 -- The battle of the B-36 -- The quiet coup of 1949 -- The Korean War. Truman's war -- The first five years of the first 50 -- The Cold War. The blueprint for Cold War defense -- The new look in retrospect -- Scientists, politics, and the bomb -- The uses of history in the nuclear age -- The war in Southeast Asia. The new American military -- Strategic superiority and Vietnam -- The Vietnam manipulators -- Reprise. The USAF in the defense establishment -- American chieftains.

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