General Merrill A. “Tony” McPeak headed the US Air Force during Operation Desert Storm, widely regarded as a “coming of age” for airpower. On the 25th anniversary of that historic conflict, in Desert Storm the Air Force’s 14th chief of staff gives a rare, first-hand account of pivotal events and lessons learned. Read Desert Storm now, exclusively on Amazon Kindle.



General Merrill A. “Tony” McPeak was the 14th chief of staff of the US Air Force. Hangar Flying is a memoir of his early service in fighter squadrons, a story about military flying in the tumultuous 1960s.

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Book 2 of the Aerial View Trilogy, Below the Zone, picks up at the Armed Forces Staff College after the war and proceeds through the 1970s and 1980s as McPeak climbed the ladder from major to four-star general.

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In Roles and Missions, we meet General McPeak as Air Force chief. Volume 3 of The Aerial View Trilogy concludes the most comprehensive memoir ever produced by one of America’s service chiefs, offering deep insights into what it takes to get the job and, then, how to do it.

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