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Academics, military enthusiasts and interested members of the public are being invited to attend two forthcoming lectures next month, concluding the 2016 series of lectures from the Royal Air Force Museum\u2019s Research Programme. <\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018The Development of RAF Air Power Doctrine, 1999-2013\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Date: <\/strong>10 November 2016<\/p>\n Time: <\/strong>6.30pm<\/p>\n Cost: <\/strong>FREE<\/p>\n Location: <\/strong>University of Wolverhampton, MC001, Millennium City Building, Wolverhampton Campus.<\/p>\n The first of two lectures is being held on Thursday 10 November at the University of Wolverhampton and is a continuation of the joint partnership between the University\u2019s Department of War Studies and the Royal Air Force Museum. This evening lecture commencing at 6.30pm will examine how the Royal Air Force has adapted to the post-Cold War strategic environment and the influencing factors that have contributed to the change in military doctrine. The lecture entitled \u2018The Development of RAF Air Power Doctrine, 1999-2013\u2019 <\/strong>will be presented by Dr Viktoriya Fedorchak, an independent researcher who recently completed her PhD on the subject.<\/p>\n Dr Viktoriya Fedorchak will discuss the variations in the RAF\u2019s policies over the last two decades and the role it has played in the development of the Service\u2019s doctrine and the evolution of air power. It will consider the four major factors in doctrine preparation; operational experience, internal politics, the role of academics and the doctrine writer. Furthermore, Dr Fedorchak will discuss how new campaigns provided operational lessons and how the shift from a single-service to a joint authorship resulted in the change of purpose and functionality.<\/p>\n Dr Peter Preston-Hough, from the University\u2019s Department of History, Politics and War Studies, said: <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be co-hosting this prestigious series of lectures, which continues\u00a0to provide an interesting insight into this fascinating area of history. This lecture is a topical analysis of the RAF’s history during an important and very recent period of political and military change.”<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018Coming to Terms with the Air-Atomic Age\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Date: <\/strong>18 November 2016<\/p>\n Time: <\/strong>12.30pm<\/p>\n Cost: <\/strong>FREE<\/p>\n Location:<\/strong> RAF Museum Cosford, National Cold War Exhibition Lecture Theatre<\/p>\n On Friday 18 November, Colonel Edward A. Kaplan, Director of Aerospace Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College will be presenting the final Cold War lunchtime lecture, being held in the Museum’s lecture theatre at 12.30pm. Entitled \u2018Coming to Terms with the Air-Atomic Age\u2019<\/strong> Colonel Kaplan looks at the notion that air power makes unique and potentially decisive contributions to national security and how this can have different meanings over time. He will illustrate these shifts using the history of the first twenty years of post-Second World War strategic air power, the \u201cair-atomic age\u201d.<\/p>\n He will explore the shift from an early air-atomic period where American strategic air power sought to destroy\u00a0enemy\u00a0industry, through a later\u00a0period\u00a0that\u00a0prioritised\u00a0blunting a Soviet nuclear offensive, to the rise of Mutually Assured Destruction. The\u00a0latter\u00a0idea abandoned conventional notions of victory and substituted\u00a0signalling\u00a0an enemy through violence with a final fallback of punishment. Civilians seized control of these air operations to support these efforts to\u00a0signal\u00a0or punish an enemy, undermining the professional standing of Airmen. As a result, airpower began a search for a new identity that ultimately led to the substitution of precision for blunt\u00a0force\u00a0and the restoration of operational control to professional Airmen.<\/p>\n Dr Ross Mahoney, RAF Museum Aviation Historian said:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe final two lectures of the RAF Museum\u2019s Research Programme for 2016 examine two fascinating areas related to the development and importance of air power on both sides of the Atlantic. They should be of interest to those interested in the development of air power since the Second World War to the present. Also, we are pleased to be running our Trenchard Lectures with our partners at the University of Wolverhampton who continue to support the series.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n As spaces are limited to both lectures, organisers advise visitors to book their FREE tickets in advance via the museum\u2019s website to avoid disappointment www.rafmuseum.org\/cosford<\/a>.\u00a0 Additional information about both lectures and the Museum’s Research Programme is also available online.<\/p>\n Visitors arriving early for the \u2018Coming <\/span>to Terms with the Air-Atomic Age\u2019 lecture being held at the museum\u2019s Cosford site can also take up the opportunity to see inside the Museum\u2019s Conservation Centre during the annual open week which runs from 14-19 November. Doors to the Conservation Centre open at 10.15am until 1.00pm and entry is just \u00a35 per person.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Academics, military enthusiasts and interested members of the public are being invited to attend two forthcoming lectures next month, concluding the 2016 series of lectures from the Royal Air Force Museum\u2019s Research Programme. \u2018The Development of RAF Air Power Doctrine, 1999-2013\u2019 Date: 10 November 2016 Time: 6.30pm Cost: FREE Location: University of Wolverhampton, MC001, Millennium … Continue reading RAF Museum concludes 2016 lecture series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[263,10,55,195],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-263","tag-news","tag-november","tag-raf-museum-cosford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}