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- Title
Air Power and Allenby's Army: Combined Arms in Palestine 1917–1918.
- Authors
Halstead, James
- Abstract
Historians have overlooked the important role played by airpower in combined arms during the Palestine Campaign, 1917–1918. This article argues the Egyptian Expeditionary Force adopted Western Front command structures, successfully integrating airpower within their command and control systems. Tactical and strategic airpower provided intelligence which allowed Corps and Army Headquarters to control the tempo of operations, while ground attack operations disrupted Ottoman command and control arrangements. This integration made a clear contribution to the success of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force at the crucial battles of Third Gaza and Megiddo.
- Subjects
MEGIDDO (Extinct city); COMMAND &; control systems; WORLD War I
- Publication
War in History, 2022, Vol 29, Issue 1, p157
- ISSN
0968-3445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0968344520914316