Article: Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II.(Bookshelf Ideas)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II, by Stephen Budiansky, ISBN 014303474X, April 2005, paperback, 528pp, $18.00.

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Even before the Wright Brothers' first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield and the men in the trenches, the airplane would be an unstoppable force, leaving no spot on earth safe from attack. The very nature of war would be changed forever. Less than a decade after Kitty Hawk, airplanes were dropping bombs in colonial wars. ...

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