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The Air Weapon

Doctrines of Air Power Strategy and Operational Art

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  • © 1996

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  1. Andrew G. B. Vallance
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The ‘Database’: A Historical Background

    • Andrew G. B. Vallance
    Pages 1-22

  3. Warfare in the Third Dimension: Air Power in Perspective

    • Andrew G. B. Vallance
    Pages 23-41

  4. Cohesion is the Key: Air Power Employment

    • Andrew G. B. Vallance
    Pages 42-61

  5. Primus Inter Pares: The Counter-Air Campaign

    • Andrew G. B. Vallance
    Pages 62-85

  6. Direct Action: The Anti-Surface Force Air Campaign

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    Pages 86-108

  7. The Deep Battle: The Strategic Air Offensive Campaign

    • Andrew G. B. Vallance
    Pages 109-127

  8. Force Multipliers: Combat-Support Air Operations

    • Andrew G. B. Vallance
    Pages 128-151

  9. The Sinews of Air Power: Ground Combat-Support Activities

    • Andrew G. B. Vallance
    Pages 152-169

  10. Things to Come? Some Thoughts on Future Developments

    • Andrew G. B. Vallance
    Pages 170-185

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 186-214
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Air power today dominates virtually all military operations, yet it remains the least well-understood form of armed force. Technical and tactical details of aviation forces are widely available, but few understand how such forces are best used in prosecuting defence and security policy. The Air Weapon seeks to address this deficiency by setting out the doctrines which guide the use of air power at the strategic and operational levels of war. It identifies what aviation forces can - and cannot - be used to achieve. It encompasses doctrines for war-fighting and also for war-prevention. And it suggests possible directions for future doctrinal development. Following a cohesive 'top-down' analytical path, the study deals with air power in the only viable way: as an integrated entity. The Air Weapon is perhaps the only all-encompassing high-level study of this critically important yet all-too-little-understood form of military power.

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