{"product_id":"9781501789007","title":"Flying Brothers : From Dogfights to Diplomacy in Cold War Southeast Asia (Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlying Brothers drops you into cockpits and crisis rooms across the Cold War: supersonic F-5s herding rebel \"Tora-Toras\" over Manila in 1989, F-86 Sabres firing the first Sidewinder missiles against MiG-17s above the Taiwan Strait in 1958, and AT-6s striking a mutinous warship on a river in downtown Bangkok in 1951. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstead of retelling Vietnam, Flying Brothers follows America's three treaty allies in Southeast Asia—Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines—showing how they built airpower that actually worked. The deal was stark: trade territory for technology. By hosting US bases, these countries gained jets, radar, and training they couldn't otherwise afford—while wrestling with the sovereignty headaches that came with a foreign force on their soil. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the story are \"diplomats in flight suits\": American advisors flying, fixing, and planning alongside their counterparts to turn hand-me-down aircraft into credible defenses and hard-won victories—from the Philippines' air-ground campaign against the Huks to Taiwan's measured, missile-age deterrence. Along the way, Daniel Jackson highlights dogfights, ramp-side ingenuity, and the annual \"Flying Brothers\" weapons meets that forged real fraternity among allied airmen. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers of military and aviation history, Cold War strategy, and Southeast Asia, this is a fast-moving, clear-eyed account of how alliances actually fight: not with speeches, but with checklists, radar tracks, and pilots who know when to hold fire—and when to press the attack. The result is a persuasive case that well-run advisory missions, tied to coherent political-military aims, can succeed at far lower cost than direct US intervention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48997058281707,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":69.49,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781501789007","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}