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Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat. Edited by Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Photographs. Index. Pp. 382. $39.95 ISBN 978-0-8131-2374-5
Building an air force and guiding it to victory presents a complex task requiring an intricate balance among wildly varied demands. Writing about this topic requires a similar balance. Robin Higham and Stephen Harris have assembled a series of essays that approach the topic with an insightful strategy: rather than chronicling the triumph of air forces, the chapters in this book examine their catastrophes. As an approach it has much to recommend it, although in this case the results are mixed.
The most successful essay in the book, Anthony Christopher Cain's examination of the... |

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