Aircraft of the USAF and its NATO Allies

If a Third World War is ever fought with conventional weapons, it is likely that central Europe will be its center stage. If that war comes, air superiority over the battlefields of central Europe will mean the difference between winning and losing. In the meantime the quality of NATO airpower stands as a major deterrent in preventing the Third World War.
In the wake of the Second World War, while the Western powers demobilized, the Soviet Union kept a massive standing army in place in Eastern Europe. It was in response to this ominous threat that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established as a military alliance in 1949.
This book clearly outlines the structure and organization of NATO airpower, which has always been an important part of the alliance's strength.


edited by Bill Yenne
Published by Bison 1987 1st edition. 223pp profusely illustrated with colour photos and artwork, index. 29x23 landscape, mint, including d/.





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"Long" descriptions, where shown, may have been taken from the book's dust jacket notes, and as such are relevant to the date of publication (e.g. any references to "previously unpublished photographs" etc.) and not the present.