La guerre du roi aux portes de l’Italie, 1515-1559, Julien Guinand, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020, 347 p.

The observation balloons branch is a little-known specialty of the French army. However, it plays an important role during World War One in intelligence gathering and directing artillery fire. But sterling service does not prevent it to undergo a crisis during the interwar period, mainly for lack of...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Vo-Ha, Paul
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Français
Publié: 2020
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
id cairn-RHA_300_0139
record_format cairn
spelling cairn-RHA_300_0139RHARevue Historique des Armées https://shs.cairn.info/revue-historique-des-armees-2020-3-page-139?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rha.300.0139 La guerre du roi aux portes de l’Italie, 1515-1559, Julien Guinand, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020, 347 p. Vo-Ha, Paul2020 fre Revue Historique des Armées | 300 | 3 | 2020-01-04 | p. 139-140 | 0035-3299 RHA_30091 The observation balloons branch is a little-known specialty of the French army. However, it plays an important role during World War One in intelligence gathering and directing artillery fire. But sterling service does not prevent it to undergo a crisis during the interwar period, mainly for lack of sufficient funds. The ballooning observation, a part first of the Engineer corps then of the Air Force, has an organization, staffing, hardware, employment doctrine of its own. General Paul Bienvenue, one of the first balloonists, keeps alerting his superiors on the poor state of the branch in the years 1920-1940, without success. Lacking modernization, it is debilitated when embarking on the 1940 campaign, before collapsing under the blows of the Luftwaffe.Cairn free access
language Français
format Article ou chapitre numérique
building 0/Bibliothèque numérique/
1/Bibliothèque numérique/Cairn/
description The observation balloons branch is a little-known specialty of the French army. However, it plays an important role during World War One in intelligence gathering and directing artillery fire. But sterling service does not prevent it to undergo a crisis during the interwar period, mainly for lack of sufficient funds. The ballooning observation, a part first of the Engineer corps then of the Air Force, has an organization, staffing, hardware, employment doctrine of its own. General Paul Bienvenue, one of the first balloonists, keeps alerting his superiors on the poor state of the branch in the years 1920-1940, without success. Lacking modernization, it is debilitated when embarking on the 1940 campaign, before collapsing under the blows of the Luftwaffe.
author Vo-Ha, Paul
spellingShingle Vo-Ha, Paul
La guerre du roi aux portes de l’Italie, 1515-1559, Julien Guinand, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020, 347 p.
author_facet Vo-Ha, Paul
author_sort Vo-Ha, Paul
title La guerre du roi aux portes de l’Italie, 1515-1559, Julien Guinand, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020, 347 p.
title_short La guerre du roi aux portes de l’Italie, 1515-1559, Julien Guinand, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020, 347 p.
title_full La guerre du roi aux portes de l’Italie, 1515-1559, Julien Guinand, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020, 347 p.
title_fullStr La guerre du roi aux portes de l’Italie, 1515-1559, Julien Guinand, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020, 347 p.
title_full_unstemmed La guerre du roi aux portes de l’Italie, 1515-1559, Julien Guinand, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020, 347 p.
title_sort la guerre du roi aux portes de l’italie, 1515-1559, julien guinand, rennes, presses universitaires de rennes, 2020, 347 p.
publishDate 2020
container_title
container_issue
url https://ezproxy.univ-orleans.fr/login?url=https://shs.cairn.info/revue-historique-des-armees-2020-3-page-139?lang=fr
https://ezproxy.univ-orleans.fr/login?url=https://doi.org/10.3917/rha.300.0139
_version_ 1877284620181962753