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Air power has had a profound impact on the defence of nations ever since it came into being a little over a century ago. The reason is fairly simple. Air power (and now increasingly aerospace power), can influences and interfere with the operations of land forces as well as the naval forces. But they cannot do so to air power; and hence the inevitable central struggle has to be between the air powers of countries in conflict. Where a country loses its ...
If the Dakota transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force flying from Delhi with troops of the Indian Army had not landed at Srinagar on the morning of October 27, 1947, the history and geography of the subcontinent may well have been different! Or if the four Hunter Fighters had not destroyed the bulk of Pakistani tanks at Longewala in 1971, the road to Jaisalmer for their armour thrust was wide open. The history of the Indian Air Force over the past seventy-five ...