⏰ Less than a week to go! The RAF Museum Annual Conference begins 4 Sept ✈️ Two days of inspiring talks on New Perspectives in Military Aviation Research. Tickets £60 / £40 concessions 🎟️ Or watch every session FREE on Crowdcast 💻🌍 Book here 👉 bit.ly/4dQFyvU #AviationHistory #AviationResearch

I am looking forward to participating in the @rafmuseum.bsky.social conference again next week, giving a paper on reconceiving J. C. Slessor's Air Power and Armies as applied history, and engaging with the other fascinating papers. Thank you @drmeganekelleher.bsky.social for organising it.

Fantastic to see Close Air Support out as an Ebook. Lots of hardwork editing with @ac1shaw.bsky.social to produce a volume covering the FWW to the present and exploring CAS inoperations beyond those usually considered. At £16 it is a steal!

Delighted that @rafhistory.bsky.social and my 'Close Air Support' is now available as an eBook at a launch price of £16. www.helion.co.uk/military-his...

My third and final edition of the Journal of the @rafhistorical.bsky.social as editor is in print. It's the proceedings of the RAF culture seminar at @rafmuseum.bsky.social , organised by @sophyantrobus.bsky.social , @rafhistory.bsky.social, wonderfully guest edited by @sophyhiggins.bsky.social.

I am delighted my review of Rich Milburn's fascinating examination of Sir Charles Portal as a strategist is published in the RAF Chief of the Air Staff's Reading List 2025. Also includes @paul-cyfecta.bsky.social review of Arutunyan & Galeotti's 'Downfall' airspacepower.com/wp-content/u...

Fantastic to be at the RAF Historical Society as Gus MacDonald was presented the Two Air Forces Award for his chapter in @ac1shaw.bsky.social and my work onClose Air Support www.helion.co.uk/military-his...

Approaches to Offensive Counter Air, 2025. RAF (top) Ukraine (below)...

📢 Join us at the RAF Museum London on 20 May, 12pm for a Lunchtime Lecture: “The Smuts Report 1917: A New Perspective” with historian Neil Datson ✈️ Was the RAF's creation a bold vision—or a strategic misstep? 🤔 🎟️ Free in-person (registration req’d) or livestream via Crowdcast 🔗 bit.ly/4knavu1

Working on a proposal which contrasts Thomas Hippler's idea of early strategic bombing theory as ahistorial historicism with Slessor's intent for his history based Air Power and Armies to allow practitioners to be 'be wise before the event'. @drmeganekelleher.bsky.social @rafhistory.bsky.social

✈️ RAF Museum CFP for our 2025 annual conference — just 1 week left! ⌛ 📅 Deadline: 25 April We're seeking bold new takes on air power: untold stories, fresh methods, & environmental impacts. 🎓 ECRs welcome! 💸 Bursaries available 📍 4–5 Sept | RAF Museum London 🔗 Full details at bit.ly/3QWgJUS

Twenty per cent discount today on @rafhistory.bsky.social and my co-edited Close Air Support: Case Studies on the Integration of Air Power on the Battlefield. Order here www.helion.co.uk/military-his...

Still plenty of time to sign up to John Alexander's online talk this Thursday, which looks at army-air cooperation on the Northwest Frontier. Members and non-members can register for free at: my.demio.com/ref/7vqiBVpQ...

The great American drone panic is most likely a case of mass hysteria. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

🎙 In the latest Talking Strategy episode, we speak with Dr Harry Raffal @rafhistory.bsky.social (@rafmuseum.bsky.social) about ‘the architect and patron saint of modern air power’, Marshal of the RAF Viscount Hugh Trenchard. Learn more here: rusi.org/podcasts/tal...

Close Air Support: Case Studies on the Integration of Air Power on the Battlefield, the anthology of 2023 BCMH and @rafmuseum.bsky.social CAS conference co-edited with @rafhistory.bsky.social, now available from Helion Books. Order here www.helion.co.uk/military-his...

Secondly, my chapter examining the development and employment of Aerial Rocket Artillery helicopters by the US Army is in the collection Close Air Support, edited by Harry Raffal (@rafhistory.bsky.social) and John Alexander (@ac1shaw.bsky.social) and published today by Helion.

We launched our new website earlier this year and will be updating our content in the New Year to share more of our Journals and to keep you up to date with our events. rafhistoricalsociety.org.uk

Call for Contributors – The Airfix School of History: The Development and Writing of Air Power History drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2024/11/11/c... #airpowerhistory #aviationhistory #plsRT