CENTRE FOR AIR POWER STUDIES

Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies (RAF CAPS)

2 August 2008: Added to the Calendar of Events page two new seminars:

 

 

26 September 2008: "Drop-Zone Burma: An Analysis of Allied Air Supply 1942-1945" by Roger Annett, RAF, rtd. KCL Air Power Studies Seminar at the Royal Air Force College. To attend please contact Dr Andrew Conway. Email: aconway-kcl@cranwell.raf.mod.uk. Phone: 01400 266289.

 

31 October 2008: "Air Power and Civilians in Times of Conflict" by Professor Anthony Grayling, School of Philosophy, Birkbeck University of London. KCL Air Power Studies Seminar at the Royal Air Force College. To attend please contact Dr Andrew Conway. Email: aconway-kcl@cranwell.raf.mod.uk. Phone: 01400 266289.

 

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9 July 2008: Added to the Jobs Opportunities Page an advertisement for the RAAF lecturer position, Chief of Air Force Fellow in Air Power, at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy Campus here in Canberra, Australia. 

 

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2 July 2008: Added to the Calendar of Events page a new conference:

2-3 September 2008: “1918: The Genesis of Modern Warfare: The Birth of the Royal Air Force and the Hundred Days Campaign” A Conference of the Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham, in conjunction with the Director Defence Studies (Army), Director Defence Studies (Royal Air Force) and Director Defence Studies (Royal Navy). University of Birmingham. To offer a paper please contact Professor Gary Sheffield (g.d.sheffield@bham.ac.uk). For further details and an application form, visit: http://www.1918modernwar.bham.ac.uk/

 

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1 July 2008: Added to the Calendar of Events page a new seminar:

 

29 August 2008: “Why Space is a National Security Issue” by Gp Capt Ian Shields, DCDC AD Air. KCL Air Power Studies Seminar at the Royal Air Force College. To attend please contact Dr Andrew Conway. Email: aconway-kcl@cranwell.raf.mod.uk. Phone: 01400 266289.

 

 

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1 July 2008: Added to the historical sources page a copy of the previously unpublished RAF NARRATIVE: The Air Defence of Great Britain, Volume III: Night Air Defence, June 1940 – December 1941 [click to read]

 

 

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26 June 2008: Added an index to all articles in all online issues of the Air Power Review.

 

 

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26 June 2008: Added to the links page a link to The Royal Air Force Historical Society.

 

 

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20 June 2008: Added a full search engine for this website. Viewers can search by names and / or keywords. 

 

 

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19 June 2008: Added to the Calendar of Events page a new seminar:

 

“Arnhem Revisited: The Myth and Reality of Operation Market Garden" by Dr Sebastian Ritchie, Historian, Air Historical Branch (RAF). KCL Air Power Studies Seminar at the Royal Air Force College. To attend please contact Dr Andrew Conway. Email: aconway-kcl@cranwell.raf.mod.uk. Phone: 01400 266289.

 

 

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15 June 2008: Added to the Academic Advisory Panel page two new advisors:

 

Associate Professor Øistein Espenes
Dean of the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy

Trondheim, Noway

Email: Oistein.Espenes@lksk.mil.no

 

 

Le Général de brigade aérienne Jean-Marc Laurent

Directeur du Centre d’études stratégiques aérospatiale

Paris

Email: dir.cesa@inet.defense.gouv.fr

 

 

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22 May 2008: Added a new page with details of RAF CAPS’s 2009 conference:

"Air Power and the Environment: The Ecological Implications of Modern Air Warfare", The Conference of the Air Power Studies Division, King’s College London and the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies, to be held at Royal Air Force College Cranwell, United Kingdom, 26 and 27 August 2009

 

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11 May 2008: Added to the RAF CAPS Publications page a new free downloadble book:

Neville Parton, ed., Air Power: The Agile Air Force (Royal Air Force, 2008. ISBN: 0-9552189-1-8). For a free download of this book please click HERE!