Libyan Air Wars 1985-1986 - Couverture souple

Arnaud Delalande; Albert Grandolini; Tom Cooper

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910294535 ISBN 13 : 9781910294536

Editeur : Helion & Company, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

While the first volume in this mini-series spanned the first decade of confrontations between Libya and several of its neighbours, but foremost the USA and France, between 1973 and 1985, the second is to cover the period of less than a year - between mid-1985 and March 1986, when this confrontation reached its first climax. Through mid and late 1985, relations between France and Libya became tense over the situation in Chad. By early 1986, the French felt forced to deploy their air force for an airstrike on the crucial Libyan air base at Wadi Doum, in the north of that country. Tripoli reacted with a high-profile aerial attack on N'Djamena IAP and by bolstering support for its proxies. This eventually provoked Paris to launch its third military intervention in that country, Operation Epervier. Meanwhile, a series of terror attacks on US citizens and interests in Europe and the Mediterranean area took place. While most of these saw the involvement of Iran and Syria too, Libya was recognized as major supporter of the activities in question. In the aftermath of several traumatic experiences, the US administration began planning for direct action against the government in Tripoli and various terrorist organizations supported by it. As the Pentagon planners prepared a contingency list of targets in Libya, and the US Air Force began planning its involvement, ships and aircraft of the US Navy launched intensive operations off the Libyan coast with the aim of provoking an incident that could be used as a reason for major military attack on Libya. Eventually, these operations culminated in Operation Prairie Fire - a series of short but sharp clashes between the US Navy and Libyan air defences and the Navy, in March 1986. Part 2 of this mini-series provides an unprecedentedly detailed and richly illustrated description of the involved air forces, their equipment and markings, and related military aerial operations, many of which have remained unknown until today, while others have been forgotten outright. Contains c 150 colour & b/w photos, colour profiles, maps.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Tom Cooper, from Austria, is a military-aviation journalist and historian. Following a career in a worldwide transportation business in which, during his extensive travels in Europe and the Middle East, he established excellent contacts he moved into writing. An earlier fascination with post-Second World War military aviation has narrowed to focus on smaller air forces and conflicts, about which he has collected extensive archives of material. Concentrating primarily on air warfare that has previously received scant attention, he specializes in investigative research on little-known African and Arab air forces, as well as the Iranian Air Force. Cooper has published 18 books including the unique Arab MiGs series, which examines the deployment and service history of major Arab air forces in conflicts with Israel as well as over 200 articles on related topics, providing a window into a number of previously unexamined yet fascinating conflicts and relevant developments. Military historian and aviation-journalist, Albert Grandolini, was born in France and gained an MA in history from Paris I Sorbonne University. His primary research focus is on contemporary conflicts in general and particularly on the military history of Asia. Having spent his childhood in South Vietnam, the Vietnam War has been one of his main fields of research. He is the author of the books the Fall of the Flying Dragon, South Vietnamese Air Force (1973-1975) with Harpia Publishing and the Armor of the Vietnam War: the Asian Forces, Concord Publishing. He is also co-author of the two volumes of the Libyan Air Wars with Helion Publishers in the Africa@War Series. He had also written numerous articles for various British, French and German magazines, such as Air Enthusiast, Flieger Revue Extra, Fana de l aviation, Tank Zone and Batailles et Blindés. He has regularly contributed to the Air Combat Information Group (ACIG) and the Au Delà de la Colline military history French Website.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Helion & Company
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1910294535
• ISBN 13: 9781910294536
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72