Description:Explores something of the background of the contemporary air weapon. Attempts to distill from past experience in the development of air material those lessons which might be of help in formulating policies for exploiting the air weapons more successfully in the future. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1953. Air Force ISBN 0-912799-11-0. L.C. card 83-18967."Remains one of the finest texts ever written on the history of warfare and weapons acquisition." from the foreword by Richard P. Hallion