Air Power And Maneuver Warfare

Air Power And Maneuver Warfare
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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781782899921
ISBN-13 : 1782899928
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Book Synopsis Air Power And Maneuver Warfare by : Professor Martin Van Crefeld

Download or read book Air Power And Maneuver Warfare written by Professor Martin Van Crefeld and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential part of the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), Alabama, curriculum consists of the study of military history and specific campaigns. Distinguished military scholars often visit the college to discuss and explore issues with the faculty. Martin van Creveld was one of those distinguished scholars. He had previously been commissioned by the Air Staff to investigate the effects of the US Army’s move toward a more maneuver-oriented kind of warfare and the effect that move will have on the US Air Force role on the battlefield. The Air Staff was concerned about a host of issues: logistic support for a highly mobile force; friendly force confusion on huge, rapidly changing battlefields; close air support with or without air base support; and a host of other issues. The bottom line for the Air Force concerned several issues of great impact. First, Must air combat change because land combat is changing? and, Is the decisiveness of air power increasing geometrically to the point where the twenty-first century will find it is as decisive as ground power was in the twentieth century? Our guest historian agrees that sophisticated, highly technical air and space developments may have made air power dominant on the conventional battlefield. The great exception, however, lies in the trend away from conventional to unconventional conflict. To Professor van Creveld, nation-states have lost the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. To prepare for a conventional scenario is to prepare for the last war, not the next one. The possibility of more “Lebanons” is much higher than the likelihood of future “Iraqs.”


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