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Exploring the development of air power from the earliest days of flight to now and the future.
Editors: Dr Ross Mahoney, Dr Maria Burczynska, Dr Mike Hankins, Dr Brian Laslie, Abby Whitlock and Luca Chadwick.
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Editors: Dr Ross Mahoney, Dr Maria Burczynska, Dr Mike Hankins, Dr Brian Laslie, Abby Whitlock and Luca Chadwick.
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💻 If you missed last week's webinar ‘The Next Battle of Britain: IAMD in the Age of Escalation’ you can now catch up online.
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Innovating Combat Preparations during the U.S. War in Vietnam: The Genesis of Enhanced Air Force Training direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...
Innovating Combat Preparations during the U.S. War in Vietnam: The Genesis of Enhanced Air Force Training
Abstract. The U.S. Air Force's periodic Red Flag exercises, starting in late 1975, came about as a result of evolutionary institutional changes in how the Air Force trained its pilots for war. Contrar...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Innovating Combat Preparations during the U.S. War in Vietnam: The Genesis of Enhanced Air Force Training direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...
#Updated - Air and Space Power Bibliography www.zotero.org/groups/51104...
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#BookReview – Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/06/b...
#BookReview – Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning
Reviewed by Dr Ross Mahoney Randall Wakelam, David Varey and Emanuele Sica (eds.), Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2020.…
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How do European and American Developments in Early Airpower Compare? www.rfmwilliams.com/how-do-europ...
How do European and American Developments in Early Airpower Compare? — R.F.M. Williams
Between 1905 and 1914, the various powers in Europe and the United States developed air power at a much different rate. During this period, the United States lagged behind significantly in air power d...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
How do European and American Developments in Early Airpower Compare? www.rfmwilliams.com/how-do-europ...
How Australia could build a northern wall of drones | Malcolm Davis | www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-australi...
How Australia could build a northern wall of drones | The Strategist
Australia should consider implementing a wall of drones to its north, to enhance its strategy of denial, consistent with its unique strategic and operational circumstances. Such a drone wall would con...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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#BookReview – Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning
Reviewed by Dr Ross Mahoney Randall Wakelam, David Varey and Emanuele Sica (eds.), Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2020.…
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November 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
My latest #bookreview... #airpowerhistory
#updated - Air and Space Power Bibliography. Now consists of 1,710 items! www.zotero.org/groups/51104... #airpower #AvGeek
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#updated - Air and Space Power Bibliography. Now consists of 1,710 items! www.zotero.org/groups/51104... #airpower #AvGeek
#BookReview – Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/06/b... @kentuckypress.bsky.social #airpowerhistory #avgeek
#BookReview – Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning
Reviewed by Dr Ross Mahoney Randall Wakelam, David Varey and Emanuele Sica (eds.), Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2020.…
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November 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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#BookReview – Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/06/b...
#BookReview – Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning
Reviewed by Dr Ross Mahoney Randall Wakelam, David Varey and Emanuele Sica (eds.), Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2020.…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Attack Helicopters Must Hunt the Hunters warontherocks.com/2025/11/atta... @warontherocks.bsky.social
Attack Helicopters Must Hunt the Hunters
“Bingo” means the point of no return: the call that fuel is running dry and the mission is over. The same call now threatens the attack helicopter itself.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Call for Submissions - From Balloons to Drones balloonstodrones.com/2023/02/04/c... #airpowerhistory #AvGeek
Call for Submissions – From Balloons to Drones
Established in 2016, From Balloons to Drones is an online scholarly platform that analyses and debates air power history (including aviation history), theory, and contemporary operations in their b…
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November 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Call for Submissions - From Balloons to Drones balloonstodrones.com/2023/02/04/c... #airpowerhistory #AvGeek
#BookReview – Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan balloonstodrones.com/2025/10/23/b... #WW2 #airpowerhistory #AvGeek
#BookReview – Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
Reviewed by Dr Ross Mahoney Richard Overy, Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan. London: Allen Lane, 2025. Hbk. Images. Notes. Further readings. Index. xiii + 206 pp. The decis…
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November 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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How Far American Women Astronauts Have Soared Since Sally Ride Took Her Historic Spaceflight - www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
How Far American Women Astronauts Have Soared Since Sally Ride Took Her Historic Spaceflight
In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
How Far American Women Astronauts Have Soared Since Sally Ride Took Her Historic Spaceflight - www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
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#BookReview – Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
Reviewed by Dr Ross Mahoney Richard Overy, Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan. London: Allen Lane, 2025. Hbk. Images. Notes. Further readings. Index. xiii + 206 pp. The decis…
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October 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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✈️ ‘Gowns Flying’: The first one hundred years of University Air Squadrons
FASI's @sophyantrobus.bsky.social examines the development of the University Air Squadrons over the past century & explores how they remain a vital link between universities & the armed forces.
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FASI's @sophyantrobus.bsky.social examines the development of the University Air Squadrons over the past century & explores how they remain a vital link between universities & the armed forces.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
✈️ ‘Gowns Flying’: The first one hundred years of University Air Squadrons
FASI's @sophyantrobus.bsky.social examines the development of the University Air Squadrons over the past century & explores how they remain a vital link between universities & the armed forces.
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ow.ly/OKeQ50XgYQx
FASI's @sophyantrobus.bsky.social examines the development of the University Air Squadrons over the past century & explores how they remain a vital link between universities & the armed forces.
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#ResearchNote – The Historiography of Australian Air Power: Official Histories drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/r...
#ResearchNote – The Historiography of Australian Air Power: Official Histories
Editorial note: This series of research notes on the historiography of Australian air power expands on sections of the bibliography available here. Australia, in general, and the Royal Australian A…
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October 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Call for Submissions - From Balloons to Drones balloonstodrones.com/2023/02/04/c...
Call for Submissions – From Balloons to Drones
Established in 2016, From Balloons to Drones is an online scholarly platform that analyses and debates air power history (including aviation history), theory, and contemporary operations in their b…
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October 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Call for Submissions - From Balloons to Drones balloonstodrones.com/2023/02/04/c...
#BookReview – Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan balloonstodrones.com/2025/10/23/b...
#BookReview – Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
Reviewed by Dr Ross Mahoney Richard Overy, Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan. London: Allen Lane, 2025. Hbk. Images. Notes. Further readings. Index. xiii + 206 pp. The decis…
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October 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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#BookReview – Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan balloonstodrones.com/2025/10/23/b... #airpowerhistory #WW2
#BookReview – Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
Reviewed by Dr Ross Mahoney Richard Overy, Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan. London: Allen Lane, 2025. Hbk. Images. Notes. Further readings. Index. xiii + 206 pp. The decis…
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Australian Air Power: A Bibliography drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/a...
Australian Air Power: A Bibliography
As if I need another project like a hole in the head (oh, wait, I have had one of those ;-)). Despite this, I have started another project, namely a new bibliography page on my website. This one is…
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October 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Australian Air Power: A Bibliography drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/a...
#Commentary - Protecting Airfields from Drones and Infiltration balloonstodrones.com/2025/09/30/c...
#Commentary – Protecting Airfields from Drones and Infiltration
By Dr Jacob Stoil From the F-35 Lightning II to the F-15E Strike Eagles, even the most advanced aircraft are sitting ducks while they are on the ground. It should come as no surprise that the best …
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October 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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