Air Power Strategy,
The principal thesis of this book is survival by having superiority in long range aircraft capable of destroying an enemies capability of waging war at its source. The author, russian born, went to the US after the first world war and later founded his own aircraft company. In the years that followed he designed built and flew many outstanding aircraft including the P.47 Thunderbolt. CHAPTERS: Prologue: the lesson of Korea -- I. Crisis in national security -- II. Peace through air power -- III. How Russia got all the marbles -- IV. Our own Maginot Line -- V. Overseas bases are untenable -- VI. The myth of the aircraft carrier -- VII. The end of sea power -- VIII. The ordeal of naval aviation -- IX. Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- X. Atomic hysteria and common sense -- XI. Defense in the atomic age -- XII. The fallacy of killing people -- XIII. The bombing of Germany -- XIV. America's strategic position -- XV. The war of the hemispheres -- XVI. Air battle -- XVII. On rearming Europe -- XVIII. The importance of South America -- XIX. Our military establishment -- XX. America invincible —