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Title: The Indian Air Force: Trends and Prospects by George K. Tanham, Marcy Agmon ISBN: 0-8330-1556-7 Publisher: Rand Corporation (NBN) Pub. Date: May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (8 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Biased outlook
Comment: Topics such as these should only be written by authors with an unbiased outlook. Otherwise, the authors and the book loses credibility, as in this case. Also poorly written.

Rating: 1
Summary: Horrible
Comment: George K Tanham seems to have very poor analytical skills and prior knowledge on the IAF.The IAF's success in wars and the defeat of the trashy PAF is not given sufficient analysis,wheras inaccurate and misleading referances to various other books,press reports and vague sources are.In fact,this book is nothing more than a thousand referances to other books and vague reports and some non informative interviews with retired personnel not to mention,some paki propoganda thrown in here and there.Tanham's assumptions and conclusions are poor to say the least.Pictures and print are of poor quality.Tanham also exagerrates and makes up quite a few problems within the IAF just to fill space.

Rating: 2
Summary: History oriented
Comment: This small book covers too little. Further, it seems disjointed with one of the authors writing the chapters with a historical perspective and the other dishing out the present and future perspective.

The history is covered well enough for the book's size with the 'Sabre-killing' air to air victories of the IAF over PAF being emphasized over the equally critical ground support role (for example, the Pakistan army tank busting Hunters of Longewla and troop transportion in general).

Overall, the authors could have done much better even in the given size with more in-depth analysis. More pictures would also have helped.