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		<title>RAF Centre for Air Power Studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago the RAF established a Centre for Air Power Studies. The centre has at its heart an attempt to work with academia as learning tool for thinking about air power. In this it is is linked to KCL&#8217;s Defence Studies department. For an Air Power historian the most useful aspect of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com&blog=2087766&post=162&subd=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is official&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just had the official confirmation from the university that I have passed my MPhil. I passed with no corrections or having to have a Viva. I am very happy and I can now look forward to the next step. In a perverse sort of way I am a bit disappointed that I did not have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com&blog=2087766&post=160&subd=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For the Fallen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memorialisation]]></category>
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Today is Armistace Day and given the current conflicts that British troops are involved in around the globe it is a particularly apt time for member of the country to remember those that have given the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country. If there is one thing that i belive in ad tried [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com&blog=2087766&post=158&subd=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Stage&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it is time to move onto the next step for me. I finished my MPhil, though I am still waiting on my results, two months ago. I have always intended to continue onto my PhD and I was originally intending to do it part-time while working as an ‘A’ Level Lecturer, however, I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com&blog=2087766&post=155&subd=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Additions&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Couple of additions to the library arrived this past week&#8230;
Christina Goulter, A Forgotten Offensive: Royal Air Force&#8217;s Anti-Shipping Campaign, 1940-1945 (London: Frank Cass, 1995) &#8211; An important contribution to the history of the RAF and in particular its contribution to maritime air power.
Vincent Orange, Tedder: Quietly in Command (London: Routledge, 2006) &#8211; A useful addition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com&blog=2087766&post=152&subd=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Qualitative Observations of Air Power at Dieppe&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of things I looked at in the course of my research was the contemporary qualitative view of the effectiveness of Air Power over Dieppe. This was easily classified into fours areas; political, command, operational and German views of the raid.
At an operational level a useful source was the Canadian Military Headquarters Historical Reports compiled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com&blog=2087766&post=148&subd=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bombing of Coventry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday will see an interesting documentary aired on BBC2 entitled Blitz: The Bombing of Coventry. The details from the BBC website states that it will not only look at the bombing and the impact that it had upon British bombing policy. The blurb also mentions the term &#8216;to coventrate&#8217; which Brett mentions in this post.
Should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com&blog=2087766&post=145&subd=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Book and a New(ish) Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another book to fall on my doormat is:
Edward Westermann Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001) &#8211; This book looks at the other side of the bombing campaign against Germany, namely the use of Anti-Aircraft artillery in the defence of Germany. It examines the numerous problems that befell this arm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com&blog=2087766&post=142&subd=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Trip to London&#8230;and Books</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/a-trip-to-london-and-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday saw me take a run into London. The purpose of this visit was to meet up with Brett Holman of Airminded who is over in the UK on holiday. For anyone who has followed Brett&#8217;s blog you will be aware that it is one of the better history blogs on the net. For me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com&blog=2087766&post=140&subd=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Concluding thoughts&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/some-concluding-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of my general thoughts on the effectiveness of the RAF during the raid on Dieppe. If I was to pull out one general point it would be that unlike what Mountbatten argued i.e that Dieppe provided vital lessons for OVERLORD, for the RAF Dieppe is one pillar of development that feeds in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com&blog=2087766&post=136&subd=thoughtsonmilitaryhistory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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