Attack Aviation in the Spanish Civil War and the Marine Corps' Missed Opportunity to Draw Lessons Learned

Abstract

This is a 200 word summary of the paper. From 1936 to 1939 Spain was immersed in a bloody civil war that involved casualty levels unseen by Europeans since the First World War. As the ideologies of communism, democracy, and fascism competed for existence, Europeans increasingly looked to the conflict in Spain to press their political agenda as well as test the military innovation of the interwar years. The lessons on the effectiveness of attack aviation were finally tested during a large scale military conflict and used to help shape the Russian, German and Italian air doctrine prior to World War II.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 22, 2016
Accession Number
AD1176129

Entities

People

  • Lance C. Day

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Aircrafts
  • Attack Aircraft
  • Availability
  • Bombing
  • Central America
  • Civil War
  • Classification
  • Combat Operations
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • First World War
  • Governments
  • Iberian Peninsula
  • Lessons Learned
  • Marine Corps
  • Marine Corps Aviation
  • Military Aircraft
  • Military Aviation
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Security
  • United States
  • War
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.