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1. Better a Footnote than a Blast: Airpower Shapes the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1958

Author

Farquhar, John T.

Subjects
Communist Party of China, Communism -- China, Air power -- Military aspects, United States. Department of State, United States. Pacific Air Forces, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, United States. Pacific Command, United States. Air Force, Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1958 -- Military aspects
Abstract

On August 23, 1958, three hundred Chinese Communist field guns fired over 40,000 rounds against the Nationalist- held offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. (1) For the next five days, [...]

Published
2023

2. Building Air Force Intellectual Capacity: An Innovative Look at Creating Air University and the Air Force Acadamy, 1918-1955

Author

Farquhar, John T.

Subjects
United States. Air Force Academy -- History, United States. Air Force -- History, Intellectual capital, Military academies -- History, Education policy, Creativity, Military education, Technology and society, Air forces, Military and naval science
Abstract

How does a military organization inspire learning? How does an Air Force build a professional educational system and generate intellectual capital? How does a military academy inculcate traditional virtues of [...]

Published
2017

3. Aerial reconnaissance, the press, and American foreign policy, 1950-1954

Author

Farquhar, John T.

Subjects
Cold War, 1945-1991, Foreign policy -- Analysis, Aerial reconnaissance -- History, Military maneuvers -- Media coverage, Military and naval science
Abstract

On April 8,1950, the Soviets removed the shroud of secrecy surrounding the U.S. strategic aerial reconnaissance program. Soviet fighters shot down an unarmed Navy PB4Y Privateer patrol plane with a [...]

Published
2015

4. Airpower and irregular war: a battle of ideas

Author

Farquhar, John T.

Subjects
United States. Marine Corps, United States. Air Force, Air power -- Military aspects -- Analysis, Military and naval science, Science and technology
Abstract

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, 'Why Air Power Alone Won't Beat ISIS [Islamic State Iraq and Syria],' military historian and foreign-policy analyst Max Boot presents a clear thesis [...]

Published
2017

5. Arctic linchpin: the Polar Concept in American air atomic strategy, 1946-1948

Author

Farquhar, John T.

Subjects
Arctic -- Military aspects -- Strategic aspects -- International aspects, Soviet Union -- History -- Military policy, Nuclear warfare -- History, Military reconnaissance -- History, Aerial reconnaissance -- History, Military strategy -- History, Military and naval science
Abstract

With the Japanese surrender on the deck of the U.S.S Missouri on August 14, 1945, American civil and military leaders faced a bewildering array of problems: unaccustomed world leadership, a [...]

Published
2014

6. An Untaken Road: Strategy, Technology, and the Hidden History of America's Mobile ICBMs

Author

Sturdevant, Rick W. and Farquhar, John T.

Subjects
An Untaken Road: Strategy, Technology, and the Hidden History of America's Mobile ICBMs (Nonfiction work) -- Pomeroy, Steven A. -- Book reviews, Military and naval science
Abstract

An Untaken Road: Strategy, Technology, and the Hidden History of America's Mobile ICBMs. By Steven A. Pomeroy. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2016. Illustrations. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiv, 290. [...]

Published
2016

7. To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction

Author

Farquhar, John T.

Subjects
To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction (Nonfiction work) -- Kaplan, Edward -- Book reviews, Military and naval science
Abstract

To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction. By Edward Kaplan. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2015. Photographs. Notes. Index. Pp. 260. [...]

Published
2015

8. The Bolt from the Blue: Air Power in the Cycle of Strategies

Author

Farquhar, John T.

Subjects
The Bolt from the Blue: Air Power in the Cycle of Strategies (Nonfiction work) -- Kainikara, Sanu -- Book reviews, Military and naval science, Science and technology
Abstract

The Bolt from the Blue: Air Power in the Cycle of Strategies by Dr. Sanu Kainikara. Royal Australian Air Force Air Power Development Centre (http://airpower.airforce.gov.au/Publications/ Details/554/The-Bolt-from-the-Blue.aspx), F3-GF, P.O. Box 7932, [...]

Published
2015

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