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The Politics of Coercion - Toward a Theory of Coercive Airpower for Post-Cold War Conflict: CADRE Paper No. 14 (Paperback)
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The Politics of Coercion - Toward a Theory of Coercive Airpower for Post-Cold War Conflict: CADRE Paper No. 14 (Paperback)
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In The Politics of Coercion: Toward a Theory of Coercive Airpower
for Post-Cold War Conflict, Lt. Col. Ellwood P. "Skip" Hinman IV
confronts an issue of high interest to airmen and policy makers
alike: What does coercion theory suggest about the use of airpower
in the early twenty-first century? More specifically, Colonel
Hinman seeks to determine whether any of the existing theories of
coercion can stand alone as a coherent, substantive, and codified
approach to airpower employment. Framing his analysis on three key
attributes of conflict in the post-Cold War era - limited,
nonprotracted war; political re-straint; and the importance of a
better state of peace - Hinman examines the contemporary
applicability of the four major theories of coercive airpower:
punishment, risk, decapitation, and denial. For reasons explained
in these pages, Hinman finds limitations in each of the prevailing
theories of coercion. In proposing a new construct that more
adequately meets the needs of post-Cold War conflict, the author
recommends a three-phase "hybrid approach" to coercion that draws
on the strengths and minimized the weaknesses of existing theory.
Arguing that aspects of this hybrid approach were evident in the
employment of airpower in Operations Desert Storm, Deliberate
Force, and Allied Force, Hinman contends that his hybrid theory of
coercion is uniquely well suited for the unsettled geopolitical
landscape of the post-Cold War era.
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