Classic Lecture - Air Power : Past Lessons & Future Application by ACM Sir Glenn Torpy FRAeS

Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 9:51 a.m.

b'The Falklands, Bosnia and the two Gulf Wars presented the Royal Air Force with a myriad of different challenges. The then Chief of the Air Staff gives his audience an insight into the air power aspects of the RAF\\u2019s actions during the quarter of a century that started with the Falklands conflict, before examining the trends that dominated the period and finishes his lecture by examining what this history could teach us about the future. \\n\\nAir Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy FRAeS delivered the Royal Aeronautical Society\\u2019s Sir Sydney Camm Lecture on 11 June 2007. The lecture was introduced by the then President of the Society, D A A Marshall CBE CEng FRAeS, and edited by Mike Stanberry FRAeS. \\n\\nThis lecture is UK Ministry of Defence \\xa9 Crown copyright 2007 and the recording is the copyright of the Royal Aeronautical Society 2007.'