French Air Power 1918-1940

Courtesy of Dr. James Slaughter, we are presenting a new 8-part lecture series on the French Air Force leading up to the 1940 campaign. They will be presented every other Wednesday at 7:00 PM (EST) via Zoom staring 18 March (next week). As always, it will be recorded and posted to YouTube.

The links for the eight presentations are:

1. March 18: 1918/1919 – https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86263186380?pwd=8hFYnQhOP7Ne3aWTE5pmW4u0kvugId.1

2. April 1: 20s and the Rif War –  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89471662474?pwd=IIoobuk6pNyRvyjnSodlgKaHnFqgEY.1

3. April 15: Late 20s to Air Force independence – https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82767463706?pwd=qSJpzw2OiCr61CCRZ0f6nSVz5tzRCN.1

4. April 29: Aircraft and Industry 1934 to 1940 – https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86389557188?pwd=CqKeUajYxXiiw8al9FqrtBCXTbUfzC.1

5. May 13: Doctrine and Intelligence 1934-1940 – https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83581419598?pwd=V2Pncrzxk686uy6ahVa7lT0M8GVPSu.1

6. May 27: The Spanish Civil War – https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87873302892?pwd=CxXR7quHmysDYl6S8xeOM73qDo6KwI.1

7. June 10: Politics – https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82312904908?pwd=hThCR8854TXLDessozm3w8MrUNydYW.1

8. June 24: Battle of France – https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85640643737?pwd=LNPVDrX9gtwOJIGWCDGB1zRq83m7GO.1

 

Jamie Slaughter’s previous eight lectures on Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862 are here: https://www.youtube.com/@thedupuyinstitute6570

Also there are his four lectures and Tanks Battle in France 1940: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCjAjdv7fvk&t=386s

He will also be conducting the Fredericksburg tour as part of the Fifth HAAC: The Fifth HAAC: Conference Description – The Dupuy Institute

We are still looking for presentations for the Fifth HAAC: Call for Presentations for the Fifth HAAC, 20 – 22 October 2026 – The Dupuy Institute

 

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Christopher A. Lawrence
Christopher A. Lawrence

Christopher A. Lawrence is a professional historian and military analyst. He is the Executive Director and President of The Dupuy Institute, an organization dedicated to scholarly research and objective analysis of historical data related to armed conflict and the resolution of armed conflict. The Dupuy Institute provides independent, historically-based analyses of lessons learned from modern military experience.
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Mr. Lawrence was the program manager for the Ardennes Campaign Simulation Data Base, the Kursk Data Base, the Modern Insurgency Spread Sheets and for a number of other smaller combat data bases. He has participated in casualty estimation studies (including estimates for Bosnia and Iraq) and studies of air campaign modeling, enemy prisoner of war capture rates, medium weight armor, urban warfare, situational awareness, counterinsurgency and other subjects for the U.S. Army, the Defense Department, the Joint Staff and the U.S. Air Force. He has also directed a number of studies related to the military impact of banning antipersonnel mines for the Joint Staff, Los Alamos National Laboratories and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation.
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His published works include papers and monographs for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation, in addition to over 40 articles written for limited-distribution newsletters and over 60 analytical reports prepared for the Defense Department. He is the author of Kursk: The Battle of Prokhorovka (Aberdeen Books, Sheridan, CO., 2015), America’s Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam (Casemate Publishers, Philadelphia & Oxford, 2015), War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat (Potomac Books, Lincoln, NE., 2017) , The Battle of Prokhorovka (Stackpole Books, Guilford, CT., 2019), The Battle for Kyiv (Frontline Books, Yorkshire, UK, 2023), Aces at Kursk (Air World, Yorkshire, UK, 2024), Hunting Falcon: The Story of WWI German Ace Hans-Joachim Buddecke (Air World, Yorkshire, UK, 2024) and The Siege of Mariupol (Frontline Books, Yorkshire, UK, 2024).
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Mr. Lawrence lives in northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C., with his wife and son.

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