Defending the Nest: Airfield Defence in the Royal Australian Air Force, 1921-1975

Air power begins and ends on the ground.

Aircraft are formidable in the sky - but on the ground, they represent fragile concentrations of national investment. The defence of those aircraft, and the airfields from which they operate, has shaped the RAAF's operational effectiveness in ways that have rarely been examined - until now.

Defending the Nest is the first rigorous scholarly examination of RAAF airfield defence from the Service's formation in 1921 to the end of the Vietnam War. Drawing ...