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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 James Jeffries.
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Based on this article by Dr Mike Hankins.
Inventing the Enemy: Colonel Toon and the Memory of Fighter Combat in Vietnam balloonstodrones.com/2018/05/30/i...
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Air power, viewed as inherently offensive and operating at the operational and strategic levels of war, is perceived as the domain of independent air forces. 2/2
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You can find out more about our excellent editorial team here. balloonstodrones.com/editors/
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Finally our Editor-in-Chief is @airpowerhistory.bsky.social is an independent scholar specialising the use of air power and the history of air warfare. He is currently the Senior Historian at Brisbane City Council in Australia. He was previously the Historian at the RAF Museum.
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The with have Dr Mike Hankins who is the Curator for US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps post-World War II Aviation at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
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Next is @jamesjhistory.bsky.social who is PhD student and an assistant lecturer at the University of Essex. James has also lectured at the Universities of Wolverhampton on an MA Air Power module, Corpus Christi, University of Oxford, Jesus College Cambridge, and Northeastern University London.
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Next is @abbyswhitlock.bsky.social who is an independent historian focusing on the World Wars. She obtained her BA in History and European Studies from the College of William and Mary in 2019. She received her MSc in History from the University of Edinburgh.
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Next, we have @mariaeb.bsky.social, who is a Lecturer in Defence Studies at the Department of Defence Studies, King’s College London. She is based at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom in Shrivenham.