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This first full-length biography of William Harding Carter explores his pivotal role in bringing the American military into a new era and transforming a legion of citizen-soldiers into the modern professional force we know today and includes 22 b&w illustrations.

The twentieth century's first decades were a time of enormous technological achievement that had profound influences on the modern battlefield. The invention of the airplane and its subsequent adaptation for military use inarguably changed the face of twentieth-century warfare. It was during this dynamic period that America's earliest Airmen began to articulate ideas on how airpower might best be used and what its presence might mean to the future conduct of war. These thoughts represented the barest beginnings of an airminded culture in the US military. In addition to defining what American...