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27 January 2010: Added to the Calendar of Events page a new seminar:

 

26 February 2010: “The Changing Relationship between Time and Space: Some Implications for Air Power” by Group Captain Ian Shields, Assistant Director Air and Space, Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre. KCL Air Power Studies Seminar at the Royal Air Force College. To attend please contact Ms Debra Aitkenhead. Email: daitkenhead-kcl@cranwell.raf.mod.uk. Phone: 01400 266334.

 

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18 December 2009: Added to the Calendar of Events page a new seminar:

 

29-30 April 2010: "Small Precision [Air] Weapons Conference" , CCT Canary Wharf, London. For deails click HERE! For a Word document draft flyer, click HERE!

 

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16 December 2009: Added to the Links page a new link:

 

The website of the Italian Air Force Air Power Journal.

 

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5 December 2009: The editors of the Air Power Review are keen to maximise the journal's readability, scholarly quality and usefulness, and would therefore be grateful for honest feedback. Please take a minute to answer the short questionnaire found by clicking HERE! Thank you.

 

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3 December 2009: Air Power Review Volume 12 (2009) Nos 2 and 3 are now available for downloading from the Air Power Review page and from these links:

 

To download Volume 12 No. 2 please click HERE!  

 

To download Volume 12 No. 3 please click HERE!  

 

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3 December 2009: Added to the RAF CAPS Publications page a new free downloadble book:

Owen Barnes, ed., Air Power: UAVs: The Wider Context (Royal Air Force Directorate of Defence Studies, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9552189-5-8). For a free download of this book please click HERE! For a free hard copy, please write to the Centre.

 

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15 November 2009: Added to the Links page a new link:

 

The Wright Stuff is the online journal of the Air Force Research Institute at the USAF's Air University. Produced on behalf of the Air University Commander, the Wright Stuff is "intended to generate thoughtful discussion and debate regarding all aspects of national security by highlighting scholarly thought from across the Air Force and beyond."

 

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22 October 2009: Added to the RAF CAPS Publications page a new free downloadble book:

Joel Hayward, ed., Air Power, Insurgency and the "War on Terror"  (Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9552189-6-5). For a free download of this book please click HERE! For a free hard copy, please write to the Centre.

 

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19 October 2009: Added a new page with details of the 2010 joint RAF CAPS-King's College London conference:

"Twenty Years in Iraq: British RAF Operations in the Gulf since 1990," the Conference of the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London and the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies, to be held at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, 29-30 September 2010

 

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8 October 2009: Added to the Calendar of Events page a new seminar:

30 October 2009: “Air Power at the Battlefront: The Ultimate Morale Weapon?” by Dr Jonathan Fennell, Lecturer in Air Power Studies. KCL Air Power Studies Seminar at the Royal Air Force College. To attend please contact Ms Debra Aitkenhead. Email: daitkenhead-kcl@cranwell.raf.mod.uk. Phone: 01400 266334.

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11 September 2009: Added to the Calendar of Events page a new seminar:

25 September 2009: “Ethics and Air Power: A Personal View” by Group Captain Ian Shields, Assistant Director Air and Space, Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre. KCL Air Power Studies Seminar at the Royal Air Force College. To attend please contact Ms Debra Aitkenhead. Email: daitkenhead-kcl@cranwell.raf.mod.uk. Phone: 01400 266334.

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8 September 2009: Added the revised version of AP 3000 British Air and Space Power Doctrine - Fourth Edition

 

 

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19 August 2009: Added the new CAS Reading List 2009.

 

 

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1 August 2009: Added to the historical sources page these important unpublished documents:

 

Previously unpublished: Air Historical Branch (1), Air Ministry, RAF Narrative: The Liberation of North West Europe: Vol. I: The Planning and Preparation of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force for the Landings in Normandy  [click to read]

 

Previously unpublished: Air Historical Branch (1), Air Ministry, RAF Narrative: The Liberation of North West Europe: Vol. II: The Administrative Preparations  [click to read]

 

Previously unpublished: Air Historical Branch (1), Air Ministry, RAF Narrative: The Liberation of North West Europe: Vol. III: The Landings in Normandy  [click to read]

 

Previously unpublished: Air Historical Branch (1), Air Ministry, RAF Narrative: The Liberation of North West Europe: Vol. IV: The Breakout and the Advance to the Lower Rhine 12 June to 30 September 1944  [click to read]

 

 

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28 July 2009: Added the new version of AP 3000 British Air and Space Power Doctrine - Fourth Edition

 

 

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22 July 2009: Added to the Jobs Page an advertisement for fixed-term or permanent lectureships in King's College London's Air Power Studies team based at the RAFC.