Slessor, John Cotesworth

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Slessor, John Cotesworth

Name: Slessor, John Cotesworth Years: 1897-1979 Rank: Marshal Nationality: British Remarks: One of the RAF's most brilliant thinkers, and a key advocate of promoting nuclear weapons as an instrument of deterrence during the Cold War

Contents 1 Timeline 2 Publications 3 Sources 4 References

[edit] Timeline

• June 3, 1897 Future Marshal of the RAF John Slessor is born^[1].

[edit] Publications

• Air Power and Armies, 1936
• The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections, 1956
• The Great Deterrent, 1957
• What Price Coexistence?: A Policy for the Western Alliance, 1961

[edit] Sources

• Wikipedia entry for John Slessor

• Airwar: Theory and Practice  at books.google.com

• Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Cotesworth Slessor and the Anglo-American Air Power Alliance, 1940-1945  at DTIC

• Atomic Guarantee , Time Magazine, March 1, 1954

[edit] References

1. ↑ wikipedia:John_Slessor