Book Description:
The national strategy of defending US interests as far from North America as possible has elevated airlift's importance in national security to a critical level.

The author's unique perspective on this topic comes from having spent 19 years as a pilot in transports, as an aeronautical engineer developing and acquiring combat aircraft, as a staff officer at the Military Airlift Command dealing with daily operational issues, and as a research fellow studying the subject at great length.

Winner of the Air Force Historical Foundation's 1988 Colonel James Cannell Memorial Award