Airpower Over Gallipoli, 19151916

Mike Pavalec has produced a superbly researched study of the role of airpower in one of history’s first great examples of multi-domain operations. He lays bare the myriad challenges to individual operators, military forces, and their commanders as they sought to introduce and integrate emerging technologies into active campaigns during modern warfare.” —Mark E. Grotelueschen, author of The AEF Way of War, Department of Military and Strategic Studies, USAF Academy“This is the first comprehensive study of airpower in the Gallipoli Campaign. The author draws on the surviving archives of all the participants and provides a comprehensive, authoritative and balanced account that offers important insights - as well as a model for how air campaigns should be presented and analysed.” —Peter J. Dye, author of The Man Who Took The Rap, Honorary Research Fellow Birmingham University, Verville Fellow, National Air & Space Museum“An expert on airpower technology, theory, and strategy, Pavelec illuminates the participants’ efforts to integrate airpower with naval and land forces. In doing so, he makes a compelling case for the Gallipoli campaign as a crucial milestone in the development of twentieth-century joint warfighting.” —Heather Venable, Associate Professor, Air Command and Staff College“Pavelec’s work tells an exciting and much-needed story of the early days of military aviation. This book sheds new light on a little-known but important moment that thoroughly enriches our understanding of the evolution of air power.” —Michael W. Hankins, curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum“Thanks to Michael Pavelec, we finally have a history of the Gallipoli campaign in all three dimensions. His book shows not only the role of airpower there, but also the way that the British, French, and Ottoman air services used Gallipoli as a laboratory to learn valuable lessons.” —Michael S. Neiberg, Chair of War Studies, US Army War College

Sterling Michael Pavelec is a professor of airpower history at the Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He is the author of four previous books and a number of articles and book chapters on airpower, technology, space, and cyber warfare.