Air power history is the branch of military history

Military history

Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....

 that analyses and chronicles the activities of air forces as well as the other organisations, including the air branches of armies and navies, that undertake military aviation. It is essential knowledge for professional airmen and is taught not only in air force academies and command and staff colleges, but also in joint academies and colleges. It is also taught in many civilian universities, ordinarily in history departments.

Some prominent air power historians, who also analyse current air power campaigns and operations, include: John Buckley

John Buckley (historian)

John D. Buckley is Professor of Military History at the University of Wolverhampton. He teaches and publishes on twentieth-century military and strategic studies, especially on air power and the final year of World War II....

, Mark Clodfelter, James Corum

James Corum

Dr James Sterling Corum is an American air power historian and authority on counter-insurgency.-Academic career:...

, Sebastian Cox

Sebastian Cox

Mr Sebastian Cox, MA , is the Head of the Air Historical Branch of the Royal Air Force, a specialist archive and history unit based at RAF Northolt, Middlesex, which seeks to maintain and preserve the historical memory of the RAF and to develop and encourage "an informed understanding of RAF and...

, Ian Gooderson

Ian Gooderson

Dr Ian Gooderson is currently a senior lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. He teaches and publishes on twentieth-century military and strategic studies, especially air power....

, Christina Goulter

Christina Goulter

Dr Christina Goulter is a New Zealand-born and educated British military historian who is currently a senior lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London...

, David Hall, Richard Hallion, Joel Hayward

Joel Hayward

Joel S.A. Hayward , is a New Zealand-born "noted scholar of war and strategy" who has worked in the United Kingdom since 2004.He is best known for his published books and articles on military matters, including the use of air power, his 2003 biography of Horatio Lord Nelson, and his writing and...

, David Jordan, Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip S. Meilinger is an retired colonel of the USAF as well as a historian and analyst. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies. Before his retirement he was Dean of the School of Advanced Airpower Studies at the USAF's Air University...

, Richard R. Muller

Richard R. Muller

Dr Richard R. Muller is Professor of Airpower History within the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at the USAF's Air University in Montgomery, Alabama. He gained his Bachelor of Arts from Franklin and Marshall College and his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Ohio...

, Williamson Murray, Vincent Orange

Vincent Orange (historian)

Dr George Vincent Orange, is a British-born New Zealand historian, best known for his military biographies of RAF commanders John Slessor, Hugh Dowding, Keith Park and Arthur Tedder...

, Richard Overy

Richard Overy

Richard Overy is a British historian who has published extensively on the history of World War II and the Third Reich. In 2007 as The Times editor of Complete History of the World he chose the 50 key dates of world history....

, Robert Pape

Robert Pape

Robert Anthony Pape, Jr. , is an American political scientist known for his work on international security affairs, especially the coercive strategies of air power and the rationale of suicide terrorism. He is currently a professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and founder of the...

, Peter Gray

Peter Gray

Peter Gray is an American psychologist and now professor emeritus at Boston College. He is the author of a widely-used introductory psychology textbook, Psychology, currently in its sixth edition....

and Philip Sabin

Philip Sabin

Professor Philip A. G. Sabin is a British military historian who is currently Professor of Strategic Studies in the War Studies Department of King's College London.He specializes in air power studies and ancient warfare...

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Key air power history periodicals include "Air Power Review", published in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 by the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies

Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies

The Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies is a Royal Air Force sponsored think tank which engages in the study of air power.The centre was launched on 23 August 2007 by Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy, Chief of the Air Staff...

, "Air Power History" published in the United States

United States

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 by the Air Force Historical Foundation, and the "Air and Space Power Journal" published in the United States

United States

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by the USAF.