Michael W. Hankins is the Curator of US Air Force History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Follow him on X @Hankenstien.

• Introduction1. The Fighter Pilot with a Thousand Faces2. You Can Tell a Fighter Pilot (But You Can't Tell Him Much)"3. What We Mean When We Say "Fighter"4. "The Right Fighter"5. "The Lord's Work"6. Writing Heresy7. "Zealots of the Classic Variety"8. Kicking Vietnam SyndromeConclusion

In this lively, absorbing account, Hankins demonstrates the influence of a specific culture that celebrated the fighter pilot as a "knight of the air" who thrilled to aerial combat.(Foreign Affairs) [Dr. Hankins] writes in an engaging and accessible way that makes some occasionally highly-technical discussions quite lucid and illuminating.(Sir Richard Williams Foundation) Flying Camelot, he has written a superlative, accessible, and balanced study of the influence Boyd and his acolytes had on the US Air Force (hereafter "Air Force") and national defense establishment in the last quarter of the twentieth century.(Michigan War Studies Review)

Michael W. Hankins is the Curator of US Air Force History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Follow him on X @Hankenstien.

• Introduction1. The Fighter Pilot with a Thousand Faces2. You Can Tell a Fighter Pilot (But You Can't Tell Him Much)"3. What We Mean When We Say "Fighter"4. "The Right Fighter"5. "The Lord's Work"6. Writing Heresy7. "Zealots of the Classic Variety"8. Kicking Vietnam SyndromeConclusion

In this lively, absorbing account, Hankins demonstrates the influence of a specific culture that celebrated the fighter pilot as a "knight of the air" who thrilled to aerial combat.(Foreign Affairs) [Dr. Hankins] writes in an engaging and accessible way that makes some occasionally highly-technical discussions quite lucid and illuminating.(Sir Richard Williams Foundation) Flying Camelot, he has written a superlative, accessible, and balanced study of the influence Boyd and his acolytes had on the US Air Force (hereafter "Air Force") and national defense establishment in the last quarter of the twentieth century.(Michigan War Studies Review)

Michael W. Hankins is the Curator of US Air Force History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Follow him on X @Hankenstien.

• Introduction1. The Fighter Pilot with a Thousand Faces2. You Can Tell a Fighter Pilot (But You Can't Tell Him Much)"3. What We Mean When We Say "Fighter"4. "The Right Fighter"5. "The Lord's Work"6. Writing Heresy7. "Zealots of the Classic Variety"8. Kicking Vietnam SyndromeConclusion

In this lively, absorbing account, Hankins demonstrates the influence of a specific culture that celebrated the fighter pilot as a "knight of the air" who thrilled to aerial combat.(Foreign Affairs) [Dr. Hankins] writes in an engaging and accessible way that makes some occasionally highly-technical discussions quite lucid and illuminating.(Sir Richard Williams Foundation) Flying Camelot, he has written a superlative, accessible, and balanced study of the influence Boyd and his acolytes had on the US Air Force (hereafter "Air Force") and national defense establishment in the last quarter of the twentieth century.(Michigan War Studies Review)