
High Stakes
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Prologue
- Introduction British Military Air Power and the Cold War, 1945-90
- Chapter 1 The Immediate Post-War 'Colonial' Conflicts
- 1.1 The Greek Civil War, 1944-9
- 1.2 Indo-China and Siam, 1945-6
- 1.3 Netherlands East Indies, 1945-6
- 1.4 Palestine, 1945-8
- 1.5 Southern Arabia, 1945-50
- 1.6 Somaliland, 1947-50
- 1.7 North-West Frontier of Pakistan, 1947
- Chapter 2 Confrontation (1) - Ideological
- 2.1 Iran and Turkey, 1946
- 2.2 The Berlin Airlift, 1948-9
- 2.3 Albania, Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic States, 1949-54
- 2.4 Korea, 1950-53
- 2.5 Hong Kong, 1948-97
- 2.6 The Berlin Wall Crisis, 1961-2
- 2.7 The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- 2.8 Berlin Spying, 1953-89
- Chapter 3 Colonial Conflicts in the 1950s
- 3.1 Eritrea, 1950-2
- 3.2 Cyprus, 1955-9
- 3.3 Egypt, 1951-6
- 3.4 Kenya, 1952-6
- 3.5 Sudan, 1955
- 3.6 The Maldives, 1959-75
- 3.7 Malaya, 1948-60
- Chapter 4 The Airborne Nuclear Deterrent
- 4.1 The British Strategic Nuclear Bomber Force
- 4.2 Strategic Guided Missiles
- 4.3 Nuclear Bombs and Warheads, and Independence
- 4.4 Defence of the Nuclear Deterrent
- 4.5 Photo-reconnaissance and the Black Arts
- Chapter 5 The Middle East, 1950s and 1960s
- 5.1 Southern Arabia (Aden and Radfan), 1950-67
- 5.2 Oman, 1952-9
- 5.3 Suez, 1956
- 5.4 Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, 1958
- 5.5 Kuwait, 1961
- 5.6 Dhofar, 1965-75
- Chapter 6 Humanitarian Aid, Peacekeeping and Conflict Avoidance
- 6.1 Humanitarian Aid and Peacekeeping, 1940s
- 6.2 Humanitarian Aid and Peacekeeping, 1950s
- 6.3 Humanitarian Aid and Peacekeeping, 1960s
- 6.4 Humanitarian Aid and Peacekeeping, 1970s
- 6.5 Humanitarian Aid and Peacekeeping, 1980s
- 6.6 Search and Rescue
- Chapter 7 Confrontation (2) - Territorial
- 7.1 Laos and Thailand, 1962
- 7.2 Confrontation over Borneo, 1962-6
- 7.3 Somalia and Kenya, 1963-7
- 7.4 East African Mutinies, 1964
- 7.5 Rhodesia, 1965-80
- 7.6 Belize, 1975-94
- 7.7 Falkland Islands/Malvinas, 1982
- 7.8 Paracels, 1988
- Chapter 8 Homeland Security
- 8.1 Strike Breaking, 1955
- 8.2 SS Queen Elizabeth 2, 1972
- 8.3 Cod Wars 1958-61, 1972-3, 1975-6
- 8.4 Northern Ireland, 1969-2007
- 8.5 Fisheries, Rig Protection and Maritime Defence
- Chapter 9 The Middle East in the 1980s
- 9.1 Lebanon, 1983-4
- 9.2 Libyan Strikes from UK Airbases, 1986
- 9.3 The First Gulf War, 1987-88
- 9.4 The Second Gulf War, 1990-91
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Aircraft Descriptions
- Appendix B: Operations, Projects and Exercises
- Bibliography
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