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  title info:
    title: British imperial air power
    sub title: the Royal Air Forces and the defense of Australia and New Zealand between the world wars
  name:
    name part: Spencer, Alex M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: inu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: British Imperial Air Power examines the air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period. It also demonstrates the difficulty of applying new military aviation technology to the defense of the global Empire and provides insight into the nature of the political relationship between the Pacific Dominions and Britain. Following World War I, both Dominions sought greater independence in defense and foreign policy. Public aversion to military matters and the economic dislocation resulting from the war and later the Depression left little money that could be provided for their respective air forces. As a result, the Empire's air services spent the entire interwar period attempting to create a strategy in the face of these handicaps. In order to survive, the British Empire's military air forces offered themselves as a practical and economical third option in the defense of Britain's global Empire, intending to replace the Royal Navy and British Army as the traditional pillars of imperial defense.
  table of contents: The First Imperial Air Defense Schemes, 1918-1919 -- The Formation of the Royal Australian Air Force and the First Reassessments of Pacific Defenses, 1920-1921 -- The Empire's Air Defense: The Geddes Cuts of 1922, and the 1923 Imperial Conference and Their Influence on the Empire's Air Defense, 1922-1923 -- The Royal Air Force and Postwar Air Transport Defense Planning and the Airmail Scheme, 1919-1939 -- Airships and the Empire: Defense, Schemes, and Disaster, 1919-1930 -- Air Defense and the Labour Party: Singapore Naval Base and the 1926 Imperial Conference, 1924-1926 -- Imperial Air Mobility, the Salmond Report, and Air Marshal Trenchard's Last Salvo, 1927-1929 -- Depression and Disarmament, 1929-1933 -- The International Crises and Imperial Rearmament, 1934-1936 -- The Final Preparations, 1937-1940.
  note: Alex M Spencer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: u-at---
    geographic code: u-nz---
    geographic code: p------
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Australia.
      name part: Royal Australian Air Force
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: New Zealand.
      name part: Royal New Zealand Air Force
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Great Britain.
      name part: Royal Air Force
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Air forces
    geographic: Australia
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Air forces
    geographic: New Zealand
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Commonwealth countries
    topic: History, Military
  subject:
    geographic: Pacific Area
    topic: Military relations
    geographic: Great Britain
  classification: UG635.A8 S64 2020
  classification: 358.400993/09041
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  identifier: 9781557539403
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  identifier: 9781557539410
  identifier: 2020001443
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200127
    record change date: 20201020070600.0
    record identifier: in00004150643