Building a Strategic Air Force : 9781478125570

This volume deals with the early years of the United States Air Force's effort to build and maintain a strategic striking force, for 1945 through 1953. It discusses the period of reorganization in national defense in the years after the end of the Second World War, as Army Defense Forces dealt with the questions of structure, doctrine, strategy, atomic weapons, and technology. Crucial decisions were made at the end of 1947 and that beginning of 1948, but fiscal austerity limited the new United States Air Force in implementing those decisions. The war in Korea triggered and expansion of the armed forces that culminated in a new look of the Eisenhower administration and emphasized nuclear air power as the foundation of a national strategy of containment and deterrence.

Author: Air Force History and Museums Program

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jun 24, 2012

Number of Pages: 538 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1478125578

ISBN-13: 9781478125570