Explains how the US came to put a value on commercial opportunities overseas in support of America’s steel industry. John Fass Morton looks at how US policy found consensus around the idea of empire, taking stock of the opening of Latin American and Chinese markets to American commerce as a means for averting economic depressions.

Examines the relationships between air-intelligence organizations and key decision-makers. The book’s analysis spans from pre-war planning and doctrine development, through the Eighth Air Force's independent air campaign, and culminates with the formation of the US Strategic Air Forces and its 1944 pre-invasion preparations.

Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is the most comprehensive history of US Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition - complete with two hundred new photographs--to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book's publication.