Table of Contents

Part 1: The origins of air policing - the emergence of independent air power, the frontier and Somaliland 1919-20; Iraq and the survival of the RAF 1920-25 - the air control debate 1920-22, air control in action 1922-25; the extension of air control - Great Britain and Ireland, Palestine, India, South-West Arabia, Africa; the limits of air substitution - the air ministry and ground forces, tactical cooperation, substitution and the Navy. Part 2: The geographical environment of air policing - the long arm of the state, time and space, air power in a resistant medium; indigenous responses to air policing - expectations, from terror to adaptation, resistance; the technical dimension - air strategy, technology, training and doctrine; imperial politics and the role of force - limited and unlimited uses of force, criticisms of air policing, air policing and disarmament; comparisons - air power in Morrocco and Syria, the Italian Empire in Africa.