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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. https://balloonstodrones.com

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#Commentary – Filling the Fighter Gap: TürkiyeTurns to the Eurofighter After the F-35 Fallout By Ömer Ergün Özkan “If we cannot get the F-35, we will evaluate other options.” “There is no way we will step back from the S-400s.” “If the promises given to us are not kept, we will not approve …

#Commentary – Filling the Fighter Gap: TürkiyeTurns to the Eurofighter After the F-35 Fallout balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/25/c...

25.11.2025 12:04 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A job... Well, it's from 1950, but still!

15.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Zotero | Groups > Air and Space Power Bibliography Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

#updated - Air and Space Power Bibliography on @zotero.org www.zotero.org/groups/51104... #avgeek

22.11.2025 12:34 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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.…

In a recent #BookReview, @airpowerhistory.bsky.social reviews 'Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning,' edited by Randall Wakelam, David Varey and Emaunuele Sica. balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/06/b... #airpowehistory #PMEmatters

20.11.2025 01:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#BookReview – Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars Reviewed by Dr John J. Abbatiello Kathy Wilson, Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars. Lexington, KY:  University Press of Kentucky, 2024. Il…

In our #latest #BookReview, John Abbatiello reviews Kathy Wilson's 'Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars.' Published by @kentuckypress.bsky.social balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/18/b... #airpowerhistory #WW2

19.11.2025 12:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#BookReview – Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars Reviewed by Dr John J. Abbatiello Kathy Wilson, Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars. Lexington, KY:  University Press of Kentucky, 2024. Il…

#BookReview – Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/18/b...

18.11.2025 11:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
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4th, 5th, 6th Generation Fighters: One Big Myth Is Warping Airpower Strategy Do 4th-, 5th- and 6th-generation fighter labels help us think about airpower, or are they hiding the real technology choices the U.S. must make?

4th, 5th, 6th Generation Fighters: One Big Myth Is Warping Airpower Strategy - nationalsecurityjournal.org/4th-5th-6th-...

18.11.2025 11:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Sometimes, the most mundane-sounding documents reveal the most critical insights, such as who reported to whom. This comes from a source called the 'Distribution of Duties.' It's an RAAF publication outlining roles for those who worked at RAAF HQ (the RAF had something similar).

15.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Zotero | Groups > Air and Space Power Bibliography Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

#Updated - The @balloons2drones.bsky.social 'Air and Space Power Bibliography' now contains 1,779 titles and is growing. www.zotero.org/groups/51104...

13.11.2025 00:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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Jan Smuts, zeroth air minister? airminded.org/2025/11/12/j...

12.11.2025 13:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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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10.11.2025 13:22 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

Innovating Combat Preparations during the U.S. War in Vietnam: The Genesis of Enhanced Air Force Training direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...

10.11.2025 01:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Updated - Air and Space Power Bibliography www.zotero.org/groups/51104...

09.11.2025 13:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.…

#BookReview – Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/06/b...

07.11.2025 23:57 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

How do European and American Developments in Early Airpower Compare? www.rfmwilliams.com/how-do-europ...

07.11.2025 23:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

How Australia could build a northern wall of drones | Malcolm Davis | www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-australi...

07.11.2025 23:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My latest #bookreview... #airpowerhistory

06.11.2025 09:36 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

That your education is coming along well...Now buy the rest!

07.11.2025 23:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Air Power Reading List From Balloons to Drones is an online scholarly platform that seeks to provide analysis and debate about air power history, theory, and contemporary operations in their broadest sense, including spa…

#updated - Air Power Reading List balloonstodrones.com/air-power-re... #airpower #airpowerhistory

06.11.2025 13:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Zotero | Groups > Air and Space Power Bibliography Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

#updated - Air and Space Power Bibliography. Now consists of 1,710 items! www.zotero.org/groups/51104... #airpower #AvGeek

06.11.2025 13:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.…

#BookReview – Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/06/b... @kentuckypress.bsky.social #airpowerhistory #avgeek

06.11.2025 09:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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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.…

#BookReview – Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/06/b...

06.11.2025 01:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

Attack Helicopters Must Hunt the Hunters warontherocks.com/2025/11/atta... @warontherocks.bsky.social

04.11.2025 12:34 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Zotero | Groups > Air and Space Power Bibliography Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

#Updated - Air and Space Power Bibliography www.zotero.org/groups/51104... #airpowerhistory #militaryaviation #avgeek

03.11.2025 12:34 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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…

Call for Submissions - From Balloons to Drones balloonstodrones.com/2023/02/04/c... #airpowerhistory #AvGeek

02.11.2025 11:39 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Air Power Reading List From Balloons to Drones is an online scholarly platform that seeks to provide analysis and debate about air power history, theory, and contemporary operations in their broadest sense, including spa…

#updated - Air Power Reading List balloonstodrones.com/air-power-re... #airpowerhistory #AvGeek

02.11.2025 11:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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…

#BookReview – Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan balloonstodrones.com/2025/10/23/b... #WW2 #airpowerhistory #AvGeek

02.11.2025 11:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

How Far American Women Astronauts Have Soared Since Sally Ride Took Her Historic Spaceflight - www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

29.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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…

#BookReview – Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan balloonstodrones.com/2025/10/23/b... @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #airpowerhistory #WW2

26.10.2025 09:52 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

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