Air Power in the Age of Primacy - Air Warfare Since the Cold War

Analyzes the effectiveness of post-Cold War air wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against terrorist groups.

List of contents

1. Air Power in the Age of Primacy Phil Haun; 2. Remote Warfare: A New Architecture of Air Power Timothy P. Schultz; 3. Deliberate Force: Ambivalent Success Thomas Alexander Hughes; 4. Hoping for Victory: Coercive Air Power and NATO's Strategy in Kosovo Andrew L. Stigler; 5. Operation Enduring Freedom Nicholas Blanchette; 6. The Result is Never Final: Operation Iraqi Freedom Heather Venable; 7. Israeli Air Force Effectiveness during the Second Lebanon War (2006) Nimrod Hagiladi; 8. Libya 2011: Hollow Victory in Low-Cost Air War Jahara Matisek; 9. Coercing a Chaos State: The Saudi-Led Air War in Yemen Ralph Shield; 10. Russia's Air War Win in Syria Ralph Shield; 11. Air Power in the Battle of Mosul Stephen Renner; 12. Retrospect and Prospect: Air Power in the Age of Primacy and Beyond Colin Jackson.

Summary

Examining post-Cold War conflicts against state and non-state actors where air power played a major and sometimes decisive role, this book analyzes the effectiveness of manned and unmanned aircraft against global terrorism and in conventional, high-tech air wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against ISIS.

Product details

• Authors: Phil Jackson Haun
• Assisted by: Phil Haun (Editor), Haun Phil (Editor), Colin Jackson (Editor), Tim Schultz (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781108984751
• ISBN: 978-1-108-98475-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Lebanon, military history, Syria, International Relations, Air forces & warfare, Iraq, Air forces and warfare