Excellent its kind but ... must hang!

In fact, reading this book in repel - or will eventually discourage - more than one for the missions descriptions, riddled with abbreviations, acronyms and other anglicisms require a serious effort learning, memory (despite the lexicon and page footnotes) and concentration (a bit like a pilot in mission, I suppose).

These descriptions occupy the bulk of the book, and if they will delight enthusiasts, they may quickly saturate beginners or simply curious. The modest private pilots and other amateurs with good growing aviation can be more easily finger the complexity of systems and procedures implemented but also - and especially - the absolute rigor, discipline and the requirement performance which is continuously subject the combat crews, in a very strong background of professional emulation, but also in a world where the margin for error is almost nonexistent.

For those who are willing to do - and support - the reading effort. The result is rewarding and the book takes full its promise to provide "new light on the wings of a fighter squadron, career progression and work crew on board of a modern fighter-bomber."

From the initial training at the operational squadron assignment to the missions in Afghanistan and Libya through secondments and other assignments, we follow step by step, step by step the first ten years of the course of an officer "direct" (ie having made Salon de Provence and therefore likely to pursue a long career in the Air Force).

The author discusses frankly obstacles that may arise in the career development, as also the impact of career on the private and family life.

Perhaps we may regret that the author ignores the description of his initial training. Similarly, the second half of the book contains virtually as detailed accounts missions, which in the long run can become tiresome. For cons, the book also explains how the Air Force, faced with his European counterparts and especially American, was able to develop the Mirage 2000D, platform developed during the Cold War and fit almost perfectly the latest requirements of the coalition wars of the next century.