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Airpower for Strategic Effect is intended to contribute to the
understanding of airpower-what it is, what it does, why it does it,
and what the consequences are. This is the plot: airpower generates
strategic effect. Airpower's product is strategic effect on the
course of strategic history. Everything about military airpower is
instrumental to the purpose of securing strategic effect.
Since the unprecedentedly effective performance of the allied air
campaign against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, the role of
American air power in future wars has become a topic of often
heated public debate. In this balanced appraisal of air power's
newly realized strengths in joint warfare, Benjamin Lambeth, a
defense analyst and civilian pilot who has flown in most of the
equipment described in this book, explores the extent to which the
United States can now rely on air-delivered precision weapons in
lieu of ground forces to achieve strategic objectives and minimize
American casualties.
Beginning with the U.S. experience in Southeast Asia and
detailing how failures there set the stage for a sweeping
refurbishment of the nation's air warfare capability, Lambeth
reviews the recent history of American air power, including its
role in the Gulf War and in later operations over Bosnia, Kosovo,
and Serbia. He examines improvements in areas ranging from hardware
development to aircrew skills and organizational adaptability.
Lambeth acknowledges that the question of whether air power
should operate independently or continue to support land operations
is likely to remain contentious. He concludes, however, that air
power, its strategic effectiveness proven, can now set the
conditions for victory even from the outset of combat if applied to
its fullest potential.
The Naval War College Review was established in 1948 and is a forum
for discussion of public policy matters of interest to the maritime
services. The forthright and candid views of the authors are
presented for the professional education of the readers. Articles
published are related to the academic and professional activities
of the Naval War College. They are drawn from a wide variety of
sources in order to inform, stimulate, and challenge readers, and
to serve as a catalyst for new ideas. Articles are selected
primarily on the basis of their intellectual and literary merits,
timeliness, and usefulness and interest to a wide readership. The
thoughts and opinions expressed in this publication are those of
the authors and are not necessarily those of the U.S. Navy
Department or the Naval War College.
Airpower for Strategic Effect is intended to contribute to the
understanding of airpower-what it is, what it does, why it does it,
and what the consequences are. This is the plot: airpower generates
strategic effect. Airpower's product is strategic effect on the
course of strategic history. Everything about military airpower is
instrumental to the purpose of securing strategic effect.
Airpower in the War against ISIS chronicles the planning and
conduct of Operation Inherent Resolve by U.S. Central Command
(CENTCOM) from August 2014 to mid-2018, with a principal focus on
the contributions of U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT).
Benjamin S. Lambeth contends that the war's costly and excessive
duration resulted from CENTCOM's inaccurate assessment of the
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), determining it was simply a
resurrected Iraqi insurgency rather than recognizing it as the
emerging proto-state that it actually was. This erroneous decision,
Lambeth argues, saw the application of an inappropriate
counterinsurgency strategy and use of rules of engagement that
imposed needless restrictions on the most effective use of the
precision air assets at CENTCOM's disposal. The author, through
expert analysis of recent history, forcefully argues that CENTCOM
erred badly by not using its ample air assets at the outset not
merely for supporting Iraq's initially noncombat-ready ground
troops but also in an independent and uncompromising strategic
interdiction campaign against ISIS's most vital center-of-gravity
targets in Syria from the effort's first moments onward.
Airpower in the War against ISIS chronicles the planning and
conduct of Operation Inherent Resolve by U.S. Central Command
(CENTCOM) from August 2014 to mid-2018, with a principal focus on
the contributions of U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT).
Benjamin S. Lambeth contends that the war's costly and excessive
duration resulted from CENTCOM's inaccurate assessment of the
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), determining it was simply a
resurrected Iraqi insurgency rather than recognizing it as the
emerging proto-state that it actually was. This erroneous decision,
Lambeth argues, saw the application of an inappropriate
counterinsurgency strategy and use of rules of engagement that
imposed needless restrictions on the most effective use of the
precision air assets at CENTCOM's disposal. The author, through
expert analysis of recent history, forcefully argues that CENTCOM
erred badly by not using its ample air assets at the outset not
merely for supporting Iraq's initially noncombat-ready ground
troops but also in an independent and uncompromising strategic
interdiction campaign against ISIS's most vital center-of-gravity
targets in Syria from the effort's first moments onward.
This title examines the inconclusive results of the Israeli Defense
Force's operation in Lebanon after Hezbollah abducted two Israeli
soldiers in 2006, which many believe represents a 'failure of air
power'. The author demonstrates that this is an oversimplification
of a more complex reality and contrasts the operation with Israel's
counteroffensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in December 2008
and January 2009. One-liner: This title examines the performance of
the Israeli Defense Forces in Lebanon in 2006 and contrasts it with
Israel's action against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in December 2008
and January 2009.
This report documents the exceptional cross-service harmony that
the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy have steadily developed in their
conduct of integrated strike operations since the first Persian
Gulf War in 1991. That close harmony contrasts sharply with the
situation that prevailed throughout most of the Cold War, when the
two services maintained separate and unique operating mindsets and
lacked any significant interoperability features.
Recent campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq have demonstrated that
American carrier air power can conduct coordinated deep-strike
missions well beyond coastal reaches, providing around-the-clock
target coverage, consistently accurate target attack, and multiple
successful target attacks per sortie. In the Afghanistan war, U.S.
carrier-based fighters substituted almost entirely for land-based
theater air forces. The Navy's carriers again played a key role in
conducting around-the-clock operations against Saddam Hussein's
forces in Iraq. American carrier air power is now able to conduct
coordinated deep-strike missions well beyond coastal reaches. The
Navy's performance over Afghanistan and Iraq showed how the
nation's carrier force can provide around-the-clock target
coverage, consistently accurate target attack, and multiple
successful target attacks per sortie.
This report describes and assesses the planning and execution of
operation Enduring Freedomm against al Quada and the Taliban in
Afghnistan after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
This book offers a thorough appraisal of Operation Allied Force
from a military, political, and strategic perspective, calling
attention to those issues that are likely to have the greatest
bearing on future military policymaking.
This title examines how the urban physical, social, and political
environment constrains aerospace operations; identifies key
operational tasks that aerospace forces can help accomplish; and
discusses strategies and technologies that can improve success in
urban operations.
Operation Desert Storm is the closest thing to a laboratory test of
the U.S. and Soviet ways of war. More important than what it may
tell us about future Russian defense policy, however, is what we
may learn from assessment of the war offered by military analysts
in Moscow.
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