Harnessing the Airplane: American and British Cavalry Responses to a New Technology, 1903-1939

by Lori A. Henning

Book Overview

At its dawn in the early twentieth century, the new technology of aviation posed a crucial question to American and British cavalry: what do we do with the airplane? Lacking the hindsight of historical perspective, cavalry planners based their decisions on incomplete information. Harnessing the Airplane compares how the American and British armies dealt with this unique challenge. A multilayered look at a critical aspect of modern industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806180773
• ISBN13: 9780806180779
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"