User:Angusmclellan/ADGB
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The Air Defence of Great Britain : public concern during the First World War when German airships, and later aircraft, attacked towns and cities in south-east England.
Political crisis → RAF → Ashmore
Post-war → no enemy → no public concern → ADGB
30s → "The bomber will always get through" → priority → Inskip, etc.
WWII → Spitfire Summer, etc.
Cold War → nukes, MAD.
Today.
Sources.
- Bialer, Shadow of the Bomber
- Buckley, Air Power in the Age of Total War
- Clarke, The Great War with Germany, 1890–1914
- Edgeworth, England and the Aeroplane
- Frecinette, The Sky on Fire
- Zimmerman, Britain's Shield
- Check MoD
- Radar, big ears
