American Airpower Strategy/Korea

by Conrad C. Crane

Book Overview

The Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, but far from the type of conflict it expected or wanted to fight. As the first air war of the nuclear age, it posed a major challenge to the service to define and successfully carry out its mission by stretching the constraints of limited war while avoiding the excesses of total war.

Conrad Crane analyzes both the successes and failures of the air force in Korea,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700609911
• ISBN13: 9780700609918
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Well Done

Well written, and I agree with the first reviewer: not for novices. The book will be more meaningful to a reader who is already acquainted with the Korean War. The book is wide-ranging, succinct enough to keep you turning the pages, but with enough depth to get a solid handle on the evolution and dilemmas of airpower in the Korean War.

Informative but specialized

If you are well versed in basic Korean War history, but would like an introduction to the operational challenges that faced the Far Eastern Air Force, then this is the book for you. It does an admirable job at looking at the men and equipment engaged in the conflict.I found the discussion of pilot/crew morale particularly interesting as I had not read of it in the past.