"Airpower for strategic effect is intended to contribute to the understanding of airpower -- what it is, what it does, why it does it, and what the consequences are. This is the plot: airpower generates strategic effect. Airpower's product is strategic effect on the course of strategic history. Everything about military airpower is instrumental to the purpose of securing strategic effect."--Page.

Airpower : a contested narrative -- Ideas for action -- Geographies of warfare -- Strategic history I : Sagittarius rising, 1903-39 -- Strategic history II : the great test, 1939-45 -- Strategic history III : troubled triumph, 1945-89 -- Strategic history IV : strategic moment, 1990-99 -- Strategic history V : airpower after 9/11 -- Airpower theory -- Per ardua ad astra.