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• 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.
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Since the end of the Cold War the United States and other major powers have wielded their air forces against much weaker state and non-state actors. In this age of primacy, air wars have been contests between unequals and characterized by asymmetries of power, interest, and technology. This volume examines ten contemporary wars where air power played a major and at times decisive role. Its chapters explore the evolving use of unmanned aircraft against global terrorist organizations as well as more conventional air conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against ISIS. Air superiority could be assumed in this unique and brief period where the international system was largely absent great power competition. However, the reliable and unchallenged employment of a spectrum of manned and unmanned technologies permitted in the age of primacy may not prove effective in future conflicts.
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• pt. One The Legend
• pt. Two Csi Yangon
• pt. Three Burmese Daze
• pt. Four A Finding Of Fact
• pt. Five Fake History

Rumours of buried Spitfires from the Second World War have spread around the world for seventy-five years. In April 2012, the press reported that the UK had negotiated an agreement with Myanmar for the recovery of twenty crated Spitfires, reportedly buried after WW2. Astonishingly the agreement came about through the single-minded determination of a farmer, David Cundall. Armed with a high-tech survey showing mysterious shapes under the surface of Yangon International Airport, David's expedition is equipped with JCB excavators. But instead of Spitfires, the team unearths a tale of fake history. The Buried Spitfires of Burma explores what happened next as David Cundall's dream unravelled over the course of a historical 'whodunnit' that spans seven decades and three continents. It follows one of the most bizarre stories since the sensational Hitler Diaries hoax.
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Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. Remote Warfare broadens the conversation, interrogating the cultural and political dimensions of distant warfare and examining how various stakeholders have responded to the reality of state-sponsored remote violence. The essays here represent a panoply of viewpoints, revealing overlooked histories of remoteness, novel methodologies, and new intellectual challenges. From the story arc of Homeland to redefining the idea of a "warrior, " these thirteen pieces consider the new nature of surveillance, similarities between killing with drones and gaming, literature written by veterans, and much more. Timely and provocative, Remote Warfare makes significant and lasting contributions to our understanding of drones and the cultural forces that shape and sustain them. Contributors: Syed Irfan Ashraf, U of Peshawar, Pakistan; Jens Borrebye Bjering, U of Southern Denmark; Annika Brunck, U of Tubingen; David A. Buchanan, U.S. Air Force Academy; Owen Coggins, Open U; Andreas Immanuel Graae, U of Southern Denmark; Brittany Hirth, Dickinson State U; Tim Jelfs, U of Groningen; Ann-Katrine S. Nielsen, Aarhus U; Nike Nivar Ortiz, U of Southern California; Michael Richardson, U of New South Wales; Kristin Shamas, U of Oklahoma; Sajdeep Soomal; Michael Zeitlin, U of British Columbia. .
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• Introduction 1 In the next war: the future of cities and the future of war 2 Planning a 'militant peace': air raid precautions for peace and for war 3 Cities under fire: the 'new blitz reality' 4 Seeing cities through bombsights: urban geographies of war after 1945 5 A peace that is no peace: reconstruction, defence and development in town and country Conclusion: the ordinariness of air raids? Index
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Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain. It asks how the development of airpower and the targeting of cities influenced perceptions of urban spaces and visions of urban futures from the interwar period into the Cold War, highlighting the importance of war and the anticipation of war in modern urban history. Airpower created a permanent threat to cities and civilians, and this book considers how architects, planners and government officials reframed bombing as an ongoing urban problem, rather than one contingent to a particular conflict. It draws on archival material from local and national government, architectural and town planning journals and cultural texts, to demonstrate how cities were recast as targets, and planning for defence and planning for development became increasingly entangled. -- .
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• Introduction 1 In the next war: the future of cities and the future of war 2 Planning a 'militant peace': air raid precautions for peace and for war 3 Cities under fire: the 'new blitz reality' 4 Seeing cities through bombsights: urban geographies of war after 1945 5 A peace that is no peace: reconstruction, defence and development in town and country Conclusion: the ordinariness of air raids? Index
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Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain. It asks how the development of airpower and the targeting of cities influenced perceptions of urban spaces and visions of urban futures from the interwar period into the Cold War, highlighting the importance of war and the anticipation of war in modern urban history. Airpower created a permanent threat to cities and civilians, and this book considers how architects, planners and government officials reframed bombing as an ongoing urban problem, rather than one contingent to a particular conflict. It draws on archival material from local and national government, architectural and town planning journals and cultural texts, to demonstrate how cities were recast as targets, and planning for defence and planning for development became increasingly entangled. -- .
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• Introduction : the appeal of airpower
• Bosnia, 1995-Operation Deliberate Force
• Kosovo, 1999-Operation Allied Force
• Afghanistan, 2001-Operation Enduring Freedom
• Israel/Lebanon, 2006-Operation Change of Direction 11
• Libya, 2011-Operation Odyssey Dawn and Unified Protector
• Conclusion

Airpower can achieve military objectives-sometimes, in some circumstances It sounds simple: using airpower to intervene militarily in conflicts, thus minimizing the deaths of soldiers and civilians while achieving both tactical and strategic objectives. In reality, airpower alone sometimes does win battles, but the costs can be high and the long-term consequences may fall short of what decision-makers had in mind. This book by a long-time U.S. intelligence analyst assesses the military operations and post-conflict outcomes in five cases since the mid-1990s in which the United States and/or its allies used airpower to ""solve"" military problems: Bosnia in 1995, Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2001, Lebanon in 2006, and Libya in 2011. In each of these cases, airpower helped achieve the immediate objective, but the long-term outcomes often diverged significantly from the original intent of policymakers. The author concludes that airpower sometimes can be effective when used to support indigenous ground forces, but decision-makers should carefully consider all the circumstances before sending planes, drones, or missiles aloft.
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The former colony of Spanish Sahara saw frequent outbursts of tribal and ethnic rebellions while ruled by the colonial authorities in the late 19th and through the early 20th Century. Its vastness and distances essentially dictated the application of air power in response. While most of these events attracted next to no attention in English-language media, the large-scale operations of the Spanish colonial authorities of the late 1950s became notable at least for the final combat deployment of the famous Messerschmitt Bf.109. Following the Spanish withdrawal from Spanish Sahara in 1975, a major war erupted as Sahrawi nationalists - organized by the POLISARIO front - engaged in guerrilla warfare against Moroccan armed forces deployed to secure the northern part of the country, and Mauritanian forces deployed in the south. Characteristically for this period, POLISARIO's insurgency was often misinterpreted in the West as 'Soviet-influenced', although the rebels never adapted any related frameworks for their operations and tactics, such as those of Mao Zedong. On the contrary, while Algeria at least tolerated their bases on its soil, it was Libya that provided most of the support for the insurgency, eventually enabling it to defeat the Mauritanian military, slightly over a year later. Combined with POLISARIO's raids deep into Mauritania this prompted France to launch a limited military intervention in support. While tactically successful, this proved insufficient: Mauritania withdrew in 1979 after signing a peace treaty. Morocco continued fighting a series of bitter campaigns through 1979 and 1980, until rising costs and casualties prompted its government into developing an entirely new strategy. Construction of extensive earthen fortifications eventually slowed the war down to one of low intensity, only sporadically interrupted by insurgent attempts to achieve at least local successes. With both sides realizing that no solution through an armed conflict was possible, a cease-fire agreement was signed in 1991. However, this conflict still remains unresolved: it merely shifted to civilian resistance. Warfare in Western Sahara has in many ways become exemplary for modern-day counter-insurgency efforts in Africa and elsewhere. This conflict has been falsely declared as a part of some larger, external conflict - the Cold War; in regards of the concept of an insurgency applying motorized forces to deliver often spectacular 'hit-and-run' attacks; and in regards of a conventional military reacting with a combination of earth berms and air power. Illustrated by over 100 photograph as, a dozen maps and 18 colour profiles, Showdown in Western Sahara offers a fascinating study of the military aspects of this conflict, warfare strategies, tactics and experiences with different weapons systems.
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• 1: Foundations 2: Beginnings 3: Theory and Practice
• the Inter war years 4: The Second World War in the West 5: The Air War in the Pacific 6: Cold War 1945-1982 7: The Apotheosis of Air Power
• 1983-2001 8: Aerostats to Algorithms
• 2001-2018 and beyond Further Reading Index.
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Aerial warfare which has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping look at the history of air warfare, introducing the major battles, crises, and controversies where air power has taken centre stage, and the changes in technology and air power capabilities over time. Highlighting the role played by air power in the First and Second World Wars, he also sheds light on the lesser-known theatres where the roles of air forces have been clearly decisive in conflicts, in Africa, South America, and Asia. Along the way, Ledwidge asks key questions about the roles air power can deliver, and whether it is conceptually different from other forms of combat. Considering whether bombing has ever been truly effective, he discusses whether wars can be won from the air, and concludes by analysing whether there is a future for manned air power, or if it is inevitable that drones will dominate 21st century war in the air.
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• Preface Abbreviations
• 1 Combined Operations to 1500
• 2 The Early Modern Period, 1500 to 1700
• 3 The Eighteenth Century, 1700-1775
• 4 The American Revolution, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1775-1815
• 5 The Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914
• 6 The First World War, 1914-18
• 7 The Interwar Period, 1918-39
• 8 The Second World War, I, 1939-42
• 9 The Second World War, II, 1942-45
• 10 The Cold War, 1945-90
• 11 Since 1990
• 12 Conclusions Notes Selected Further Readin.
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This compelling book provides the first global history of the evolution of combined operations since Antiquity. Beginning with amphibious warfare in the ancient world of the Romans, Vikings, and Mongols, Jeremy Black advances through the Gunpowder Revolution, the rise of maritime empires and the formation of nation-states, the early Industrial Revolution and the adaptation of modern technology to warfare, the twentieth-century world wars, the Cold War, and concluding with the modern age of irregular and asymmetric conflict. Black's informed and analytical narrative emphasizes conflicts around the world, focusing not only on leading powers but also regional combatants. His case studies include amphibious operations in the Mongol invasions of Japan, the War for American Independence, and the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. He also explores the development and effectiveness of airborne operations as a way to project military power inland. Offering a balanced assessment of strategic, operational, and technical developments over time, Black considers both the potential and limitations of amphibious and airborne warfare-past, present, and future.
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• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• chapter one. Atlantique's anatomy
• chapter two. Backdrop blunder
• chapter three. The incident itself
• chapter four. International court of justice
• chapter five. Consequences
• the culmination
• chapter six. Closure conclusion
• Appendix one-General Act 1928
• Appendix two-Preventin of air space violations
• Appendix three-The Lahore declaration
• Bibliography
• Index

• Volume
• 1. Air warfare over the last African colony, 1945-1975

The former colony of Spanish Sahara saw frequent outbursts of tribal and ethnic rebellions already while ruled by colonial authorities, in the late 19th and through early 20th Century. Its vastness and distances de-facto dictated the application of air power in response. While most of these attracted next to no attention in English-language media, at least the large-scale operations of the Spanish colonial authorities of the late 1950s became notable for the final combat deployment of the famous Messerschmitt Bf.109. Narby, their common history as former French colonies resulted in a short war between Algeria and Morocco, which in turn prompted an arms race that lasted well into the 1980s. Following much more action than was ever reported in the media, and amid growing resistance from natives and increasing international pressure, Spain withdrew from Spanish Sahara in 1975, indirectly opening a new chapter of this part of the world, which is going to be covered in Volume 2. Warfare in Western Sahara has in many ways become exemplary for modern-day counter-insurgency efforts in Africa and elsewhere. This is so in regards of this conflict being mis-declared as a part of some larger, external conflict - like the Cold War - in regards of the concept of an insurgency applying motorized forces to deliver often spectacular 'hit-and-run' attacks; and in regards of a conventional military reacting with a combination of earth berms and air power. Illustrated by over 100 photographs, dozen of maps and 15 colour profiles, Showdown in Western Sahara, Volume 1 offers a fascinating study of the military aspects of this conflict, warfare strategies, tactics and experiences with different weapons systems.
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Designed in response to a 1951 requirement, the C-130 Hercules is the most successful military airlifter ever built. Since it first flew in prototype form on 23 August 1954, more than 2,100 have been produced in over eighty different versions. Hercules serves more than sixty air forces, as well as many civilian cargo operators, in a multiplicity of roles, including air-to-air refueller, gunship, airborne command post, flying hospital and fire-fighter. This rugged and easily maintained aircraft entered service in 1956 with the USAF Tactical Air Command. Ten years later the 'Charlie 130' was providing the essential logistical support in Vietnam. This period in South-East Asia was the Hercules' finest hour. Paradrops, airlift and evacuation operations were completed around the clock, often at low level, usually under fire and nearly always in bad weather. A generation later this 'Mr Dependable' was serving with equal distinction in the Gulf War in the role of airlifter, radio-countermeasures and 'psy-ops' platform, gunship and, once again, 'block-buster bomber'. The 'Herky Bird' or 'Fat Albert', as the C-130 is fondly known, has proved a key component in humanitarian relief operations ever since, in all parts of the world. The incredible success story of the C-130 is far from over. Here Martin W. Bowman tells the full story of this remarkable aircraft at first-hand.
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• Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan 1 Part I. Juridical, Genealogical, and Geopolitical Imaginaries 23
• 1. Dirty Dancing: Drones and Death in the Borderlands / Derek Gregory 25
• 2. Lawfare and Armed Conflicts: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and U.S. Targeted Killing Policies / Lisa Hajjar 59
• 3. American Kamikaze Television-Guided Assault Drones in World War II / Katherine Chandler 89
• 4. (Im)Material Terror: Incitement of Violence Discourse as Racializing Technology in the War on Terror / Andrea Miller 112
• 5. Vertical Mediation and the U.S. Drone War in the Horn of Africa / Lisa Parks 134 Part II. Perception and Perspective 159
• 6. Drone-o-Rama: Troubling the Temporal and Spatial Logics of Distance Warfare / Caren Kaplan 161
• 7. Dronologies: Or Twice-Told-Tales / Ricardo Dominguez 178
• 8. In Pursuit of Other Networks: Drone Art and Accelerationist Aesthetics / Thomas Stubblefield 195
• 9. The Containment Zone / Madiha Tahir 220
• 10. Stoners, Stones, and Drones: Transnational South Asian Visuality from Above and Below / Anjali Nath 241 Part III. Biopolitics, Automation, and Robotics 259
• 11. Taking People Out: Drones, Media/Weapons, and the Coming Humanectomy / Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves 261
• 12. The Labor of Surveillance and Bureaucratized Killing: New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators / Peter Asaro 282
• 13. Letter from a Sensor Operator / Brandon Bryant 315
• 14. Materialities of the Robotic / Jordan Crandall 324
• 15. Drone Imaginaries: The Technopolitics of Visuality in Postcolony and Empire / Inderpal Grewal 343 Bibliography Contributors Index.
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This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare. They show how drones generate particular ways of visualizing the spaces and targets of war while acting as tools to exercise state power. Essays include discussions of the legal justifications of extrajudicial killings and how US drone strikes in the Horn of Africa impact life on the ground, as well as a personal narrative of a former drone operator. The contributors also explore drone warfare in relation to sovereignty, governance, and social difference; provide accounts of the relationships between drone technologies and modes of perception and mediation; and theorize drones' relation to biopolitics, robotics, automation, and art. Interdisciplinary and timely, Life in the Age of Drone Warfare extends the critical study of drones while expanding the public discussion of one of our era's most ubiquitous instruments of war. Contributors. Peter Asaro, Brandon Wayne Bryant, Katherine Chandler, Jordan Crandall, Ricardo Dominguez, Derek Gregory, Inderpal Grewal, Lisa Hajjar, Caren Kaplan, Andrea Miller, Anjali Nath, Jeremy Packer, Lisa Parks, Joshua Reeves, Thomas Stubblefield, Madiha Tahir.
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• Drones 101
• War remixed
• Remote intimacy
• Casualties
• Arsenal of democracy?
• Conclusion: peering over the horizon.

Drone warfare described from the perspectives of drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, international law, military thinkers, and others. "[A] thoughtful examination of the dilemmas this new weapon poses." - Foreign Affairs Drones are changing the conduct of war. Deployed at presidential discretion, they can be used in regular war zones or to kill people in such countries as Yemen and Somalia, where the United States is not officially at war. Advocates say that drones are more precise than conventional bombers, allowing warfare with minimal civilian deaths while keeping American pilots out of harm's way. Critics say that drones are cowardly and that they often kill innocent civilians while terrorizing entire villages on the ground. In this book, Hugh Gusterson explores the significance of drone warfare from multiple perspectives, drawing on accounts by drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, human rights activists, international lawyers, journalists, military thinkers, and academic experts. Gusterson examines the way drone warfare has created commuter warriors and redefined the space of the battlefield. He looks at the paradoxical mix of closeness and distance involved in remote killing: is it easier than killing someone on the physical battlefield if you have to watch onscreen? He suggests a new way of understanding the debate over civilian casualties of drone attacks. He maps "ethical slippage" over time in the Obama administration's targeting practices. And he contrasts Obama administration officials' legal justification of drone attacks with arguments by international lawyers and NGOs.
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• Introduction: the preventive force continuum / Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos
• Preventive force: the logic of costs and benefits / Jennifer Taw
• Preventive war and its domestic politics / Miroslav Nincic
• Sovereignty and preventive war in the twenty-first century : a retrospective on eve of destruction : the coming age of preventive war / Thomas M. Nichols
• Why drones are different / Stephan Sonnenberg
• The drone : it's in the way that you use it / David Glazier
• Drones and the law : why we don't need a new legal framework for targeted killing / Daphne Eviatar
• Studying drones: the low quality information environment of Pakistan's tribal areas / C. Christine Fair
• The contemporary practice of self-defense : evolving toward the use of preemptive or preventive force? / Avery Plaw and João Franco Reis
• Restricting the preventive use of force : drones, the struggle against non-state actors, and jus ad vim / John Emery and Daniel R. Brunstetter
• Drones and dirty hands / Ben Jones and John M. Parrish
• Beyond preventive force : just peace as preventive non-intervention / Deen Chatterjee
• Conclusions / Jennifer M. Ramos and Kerstin Fisk.

More so than in the past, the US is now embracing the logic of preventive force: using military force to counter potential threats around the globe before they have fully materialized. While popular with individuals who seek to avoid too many "boots on the ground, " preventive force is controversial because of its potential for unnecessary collateral damage. Who decides what threats are 'imminent'? Is there an international legal basis to kill or harm individuals who have a connection to that threat? Do the benefits of preventive force justify the costs? And, perhaps most importantly, is the US setting a dangerous international precedent? In Preventive Force, editors Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer Ramos bring together legal scholars, political scientists, international relations scholars, and prominent defense specialists to examine these questions, whether in the context of full-scale preventive war or preventive drone strikes. In particular, the volume highlights preventive drones strikes, as they mark a complete transformation of how the US understands international norms regarding the use of force, and could potentially lead to a 'slippery slope' for the US and other nations in terms of engaging in preventive warfare as a matter of course. A comprehensive resource that speaks to the contours of preventive force as a security strategy as well as to the practical, legal, and ethical considerations of its implementation, Preventive Force is a useful guide for political scientists, international relations scholars, and policymakers who seek a thorough and current overview of this essential topic.
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• Introduction: the preventive force continuum / Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos
• Preventive force: the logic of costs and benefits / Jennifer Taw
• Preventive war and its domestic politics / Miroslav Nincic
• Sovereignty and preventive war in the twenty-first century : a retrospective on eve of destruction : the coming age of preventive war / Thomas M. Nichols
• Why drones are different / Stephan Sonnenberg
• The drone : it's in the way that you use it / David Glazier
• Drones and the law : why we don't need a new legal framework for targeted killing / Daphne Eviatar
• Studying drones: the low quality information environment of Pakistan's tribal areas / C. Christine Fair
• The contemporary practice of self-defense : evolving toward the use of preemptive or preventive force? / Avery Plaw and João Franco Reis
• Restricting the preventive use of force : drones, the struggle against non-state actors, and jus ad vim / John Emery and Daniel R. Brunstetter
• Drones and dirty hands / Ben Jones and John M. Parrish
• Beyond preventive force : just peace as preventive non-intervention / Deen Chatterjee
• Conclusions / Jennifer M. Ramos and Kerstin Fisk.

More so than in the past, the US is now embracing the logic of preventive force: using military force to counter potential threats around the globe before they have fully materialized. While popular with individuals who seek to avoid too many "boots on the ground, " preventive force is controversial because of its potential for unnecessary collateral damage. Who decides what threats are 'imminent'? Is there an international legal basis to kill or harm individuals who have a connection to that threat? Do the benefits of preventive force justify the costs? And, perhaps most importantly, is the US setting a dangerous international precedent? In Preventive Force, editors Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer Ramos bring together legal scholars, political scientists, international relations scholars, and prominent defense specialists to examine these questions, whether in the context of full-scale preventive war or preventive drone strikes. In particular, the volume highlights preventive drones strikes, as they mark a complete transformation of how the US understands international norms regarding the use of force, and could potentially lead to a 'slippery slope' for the US and other nations in terms of engaging in preventive warfare as a matter of course. A comprehensive resource that speaks to the contours of preventive force as a security strategy as well as to the practical, legal, and ethical considerations of its implementation, Preventive Force is a useful guide for political scientists, international relations scholars, and policymakers who seek a thorough and current overview of this essential topic.
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On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew over North Vietnam to initiate Operation Linebacker II. During the next eleven days, sixteen of these planes were shot down and another four suffered heavy damage. These losses soon proved so devastating that Strategic Air Command was ordered to halt the bombing. The U.S. Air Force's poor performance in this and other operations during Vietnam was partly due to the fact that they had trained their pilots according to methods devised during World War II and the Korean War, when strategic bombers attacking targets were expected to take heavy losses. Warfare had changed by the 1960s, but the USAF had not adapted. Between 1972 and 1991, however, the Air Force dramatically changed its doctrines and began to overhaul the way it trained pilots through the introduction of a groundbreaking new training program called "Red Flag." In The Air Force Way of War, Brian D. Laslie examines the revolution in pilot instruction that Red Flag brought about after Vietnam. The program's new instruction methods were dubbed "realistic" because they prepared pilots for real-life situations better than the simple cockpit simulations of the past, and students gained proficiency on primary and secondary missions instead of superficially training for numerous possible scenarios. In addition to discussing the program's methods, Laslie analyzes the way its graduates actually functioned in combat during the 1980s and '90s in places such as Grenada, Panama, Libya, and Iraq. Military historians have traditionally emphasized the primacy of technological developments during this period and have overlooked the vital importance of advances in training, but Laslie's unprecedented study of Red Flag addresses this oversight through its examination of the seminal program.
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• Introduction: airpower and strategy / John Andreas Olsen
• Paradigm lost: airpower theory and its historical struggles / Peter R. Faber
• The enemy as a complex adaptive system: John Boyd and airpower in the postmodern era / Frans P. B. Osinga
• Smart strategy, smart airpower / John A. Warden III
• Fifth-generation strategy / Alan Stephens
• Airpower theory / Colin S. Gray.

Airpower and Strategy offers a conceptual approach to warfare that emphasizes airpower's unique capability to achieve strategic effects. Six world-leading theorists argue that a viable strategy must transcend the purely military sphere, view the adversary as a multi-dimensional system, and pursue systemic paralysis and strategic effects rather than military destruction or attrition. The book is divided into three parts. The first section presents a historical perspective on airpower theory and airpower strategy, tracing their evolution from the 1920s to the 1980s. The second section contains in-depth examinations of the strategic concepts that John R. Boyd and John A. Warden developed in the 1980s and 1990s, with an emphasis on their contemporary relevance. The final section provides further context on modern airpower theory and strategy. Theory, in this setting, serves as the basic paradigm, strategy represents its generic, mechanisms-cantered application, and plans of campaign constitute the specific steps for any given situation. In short, the authors look beyond the land-centric, battlefield-oriented paradigm that has continued to dominate military theories and strategies long after airpower offered new options. The book acknowledges the essential role of advanced technology in improving airpower capabilities, but emphasizes that air services must cultivate and harness the intellectual acumen of airmen and encourage officers and men to think conceptually and strategically about the application of aerospace power. Modern airpower can offer political decision-makers more and better options-provided the underlying strategy coherently links the application of airpower directly to the end-state objectives rather than limiting it to "the battle." The book recommends that all countries should consider establishing a dynamic and vibrant environment for mastering aerospace history, theory, strategy, and doctrine; a milieu for cultivating broader knowledge of and insight into airpower; and a setting in which airpower experts have the opportunity to communicate their narrative to politicians, the media, and fellow officers, and to interact to mutual benefit with experts from all sectors of governance. This effort should emphasize the potentially unique contribution of airpower to political objectives and joint operations, and in turn connect to operational headquarters that do operational planning. Mastering such strategic thought lies at the heart of the military profession, but it requires in-depth knowledge and understanding of theory, strategy, and airpower, and transcends traditional metrics.
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• Introduction
• Part I. A Constructivist Theory of International Law: 1. The challenge
• 2. The theory
• Part II. The Definition of a Legitimate Target of Attack in International Law: 3. Positive law
• 4. Customary law
• Part III. An Empirical Study of International Law in War: 5. The rise of international law in US air warfare
• 6. The changing logic of US air warfare
• 7. The behavioural relevance of international law in US air warfare
• Part IV. An Evaluation of International Law in War: 8. The lack of normative success of international law in US air warfare
• 9. The impossibility of normative success for international law in war
• Conclusion.
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Based on an innovative theory of international law, Janina Dill's book investigates the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating the conduct of warfare. Through a comprehensive examination of the IHL defining a legitimate target of attack, Dill reveals a controversy among legal and military professionals about the 'logic' according to which belligerents ought to balance humanitarian and military imperatives: the logics of sufficiency or efficiency. Law prescribes the former, but increased recourse to international law in US air warfare has led to targeting in accordance with the logic of efficiency. The logic of sufficiency is morally less problematic, yet neither logic satisfies contemporary expectations of effective IHL or legitimate warfare. Those expectations demand that hostilities follow a logic of liability, which proves impracticable. This book proposes changes to international law, but concludes that according to widely shared normative beliefs, on the twenty-first-century battlefield there are no truly legitimate targets.
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• Introduction
• The challenge
• The theory
• Positive law
• Customary law
• The rise of international law in US air warfare
• The changing logic of US air warfare
• The behavioural relevance of international law in US air warfare
• The lack of normative success of international law in US air warfare
• The impossibility of normative success for international law in war
• Conclusion.

Based on an innovative theory of international law, Janina Dill's book investigates the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating the conduct of warfare. Through a comprehensive examination of the IHL defining a legitimate target of attack, Dill reveals a controversy among legal and military professionals about the 'logic' according to which belligerents ought to balance humanitarian and military imperatives: the logics of sufficiency or efficiency. Law prescribes the former, but increased recourse to international law in US air warfare has led to targeting in accordance with the logic of efficiency. The logic of sufficiency is morally less problematic, yet neither logic satisfies contemporary expectations of effective IHL or legitimate warfare. Those expectations demand that hostilities follow a logic of liability, which proves impracticable. This book proposes changes to international law, but concludes that according to widely shared normative beliefs, on the twenty-first-century battlefield there are no truly legitimate targets.
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• Introductio
• n1. Antecedent
• s2. Declaration, Action, and the Air-Atomic Strateg
• y3. Finding a Plac
• e4. The Fantastic Compression of Tim
• e5. To Kill a Natio
• n6. Stalemate, Finite Deterrence, Polaris, and SIOP
• -627. New Sheriff in Tow
• n8. End of an EraConclusionKey to Sources and Abbreviations Notes Index.
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Between 1945 and 1950, the United States had a global nuclear monopoly. The A-bomb transformed the nation's strategic airpower and saw the Air Force displace the Navy at the front line of American defense. In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear war from this early air-atomic era to a later period (1950-1965) in which the Soviet Union's atomic capability, accelerated by thermonuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, made American strategic assets vulnerable and gradually undermined air-atomic strategy. The shift to mutually assured destruction (MAD) via general nuclear exchange steadily took precedence in strategic thinking and budget allocations. Soon American nuclear-armed airborne bomber fleets shaped for conventionally defined-if implausible, then impossible-victory were supplanted by missile-based forces designed to survive and punish. The Air Force receded from the forefront of American security policy.Kaplan throws into question both the inevitability and preferability of the strategic doctrine of MAD. He looks at the process by which cultural, institutional, and strategic ideas about MAD took shape and makes insightful use of the comparison between generals who thought they could win a nuclear war and the cold institutional logic of the suicide pact that was MAD. Kaplan also offers a reappraisal of Eisenhower's nuclear strategy and diplomacy to make a case for the marginal viability of air-atomic military power even in an era of ballistic missiles.
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• Introductio
• n1. Antecedent
• s2. Declaration, Action, and the Air-Atomic Strateg
• y3. Finding a Plac
• e4. The Fantastic Compression of Tim
• e5. To Kill a Natio
• n6. Stalemate, Finite Deterrence, Polaris, and SIOP
• -627. New Sheriff in Tow
• n8. End of an EraConclusionKey to Sources and Abbreviations Notes Index.
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Between 1945 and 1950, the United States had a global nuclear monopoly. The A-bomb transformed the nation's strategic airpower and saw the Air Force displace the Navy at the front line of American defense. In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear war from this early air-atomic era to a later period (1950-1965) in which the Soviet Union's atomic capability, accelerated by thermonuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, made American strategic assets vulnerable and gradually undermined air-atomic strategy. The shift to mutually assured destruction (MAD) via general nuclear exchange steadily took precedence in strategic thinking and budget allocations. Soon American nuclear-armed airborne bomber fleets shaped for conventionally defined-if implausible, then impossible-victory were supplanted by missile-based forces designed to survive and punish. The Air Force receded from the forefront of American security policy.Kaplan throws into question both the inevitability and preferability of the strategic doctrine of MAD. He looks at the process by which cultural, institutional, and strategic ideas about MAD took shape and makes insightful use of the comparison between generals who thought they could win a nuclear war and the cold institutional logic of the suicide pact that was MAD. Kaplan also offers a reappraisal of Eisenhower's nuclear strategy and diplomacy to make a case for the marginal viability of air-atomic military power even in an era of ballistic missiles.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Situating Moods - Aviation Enthusiasts and Fear
• Chapter 2: Anticipating New Weapons - Theorizing Aerial Warfare
• Chapter 3: "The Dew of Death" - Dueling Perspectives on Poison Gas
• Chapter 4: C.G. Grey and J.B.S. Haldane - Two Professional Men, Two Ideologies
• Chapter 5: The Psychology of the Terror Victim in the Spanish Civil War - Morale and Defiance
• Chapter 6: Criticism from the Left - Gas Masks, Refuge Rooms, and Deep Shelters
• Chapter 7: Terror From the Skies - Wartime and the Challenge to Civil Liberties
• Chapter 8: Britishness - Civilians on the Home Front and National Identity
• Chapter 9: Architecture and Idealism - The Finsbury Deep Shelter Project
• Chapter 10: Dissent, Patriotism and the Final Showdown Over Deep Shelter Policy Conclusions: Violence and Terror - Reflections on Perpetual Fears.
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In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration. In the age of H.G. Wells and Biggles, the opening up of the air to balloons and planes- the Royal Flying Corps was founded in 1912 - appealed to concepts of courage and bravery which would be both encouraged and undermined by the experiences of World War I. The sky also held new terrors for everyday people who were now within reach of an airborne enemy- these fears included the possibilities of bombing, poison gas, surveillance and social contol. This duality of fear and enthusiasm drove the Air Raid Precaution movement, while vocal elements in the press and in parliament called for radical plans to cope with apocalyptic scenarios. Here, Michele Haapamaki charts the history of flight and of war in the air in the early twentieth century, addressing the key issues of interwar historiography such as patriotism, fear, masculinity and propaganda.
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• Contents: Introduction
• Part I Threats: Constructing the knock-out blow, 1908-1931--The bomber ascendant, 1932-1941. Part II Responses: Living with the bomber: adaptation
• The only defence is in offence: resistance
• Wings over the world: negotiation. Part III Crises: Defence panics and air panics
• The German air menace: 1913, 1922 and 1935
• Barcelona, Canton and London: 1938
• The Battles of London: 1917 and 1940
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.
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In the early twentieth century, the new technology of flight changed warfare irrevocably, not only on the battlefield, but also on the home front. As prophesied before 1914, Britain in the First World War was effectively no longer an island, with its cities attacked by Zeppelin airships and Gotha bombers in one of the first strategic bombing campaigns. Drawing on prewar ideas about the fragility of modern industrial civilization, some writers now began to argue that the main strategic risk to Britain was not invasion or blockade, but the possibility of a sudden and intense aerial bombardment of London and other cities, which would cause tremendous destruction and massive casualties. The nation would be shattered in a matter of days or weeks, before it could fully mobilize for war. Defeat, decline, and perhaps even extinction, would follow. This theory of the knock-out blow from the air solidified into a consensus during the 1920s and by the 1930s had largely become an orthodoxy, accepted by pacifists and militarists alike. But the devastation feared in 1938 during the Munich Crisis, when gas masks were distributed and hundreds of thousands fled London, was far in excess of the damage wrought by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz in 1940 and 1941, as terrible as that was. The knock-out blow, then, was a myth.But it was a myth with consequences. For the first time, The Next War in the Air reconstructs the concept of the knock-out blow as it was articulated in the public sphere, the reasons why it came to be so widely accepted by both experts and non-experts, and the way it shaped the responses of the British public to some of the great issues facing them in the 1930s, from pacifism to fascism. Drawing on both archival documents and fictional and non-fictional publications from the period between 1908, when aviation was first perceived as a threat to British security, and 1941, when the Blitz ended, and it became clear that no knock-out blow was coming, The Next War in the Air provides a fascinating insight into the origins and evolution of this important cultural and intellectual phenomenon, Britain's fear of the bomber.
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• Préface / Patrice Sauvé
• Introduction générale : la suprématie aérienne, un présupposé stratégique fragile
• Approche historique de la contre-stratégie aérienne
• La naissance de la puissance aérienne et de ses premières formes de contestation (1914-1945)
• Parades et contre-stratégies aériennes à l'âge du missile (1945-1990)
• Contester la supériorité aérienne occidentale dans l'après-guerre froide
• L'horizon des contre-stratégies aériennes
• Tendances générales de la contestation de la supériorité aérienne
• Évolution capacitaire de la menace
• Typologie des contre-stratégies aériennes
• Pérenniser la supériorité aérienne occidentale
• Maintenir l'avance occidentale en affrontement symétrique
• L'avenir des missions SEAD
• Renforcer la protection des infrastructures
• Renforcer la résilience des moyens C4ISR face aux menaces avancées
• Préparer les forces aériennes aux conflits asymétriques
• Quelle adaptation conceptuelle ?
• Conclusion générale : érosion de la puissance aérienne et équilibres internationaux
• Rattrapages technologiques et tactico-opérationnels
• Redistribution des cartes stratégiques
• L'Occident endigué ?

"Depuis la fin de la guerre froide, la force aérienne incarne, plus que toute autre capacité militaire, le visage de la puissance occidentale. Alors que les souvenirs des dernières oppositions aériennes sérieuses se font de plus en plus lointains, gouvernements et opinions publiques tiennent aujourd'hui pour acquise cette maîtrise du ciel, au point d'en faire implicitement la pierre angulaire de toute intervention militaire. Or, les évolutions géopolitiques et technologiques des vingt dernières années pourraient remettre en cause une évidence déjà contestable au regard de l'histoire. Dans les années à venir, les armées occidentales vont en effet devoir faire face à des adversaires potentiels dotés de capacités défensives nettement plus performantes : missiles antiaériens modernes et intégrés dans des réseaux redondants, chasseurs de S' génération, moyens d'agression à longue distance, drones ou encore cyberattaques... Confrontées à des formes de contestation sophistiquées, technologiquement comme stratégiquement, les forces aériennes vont devoir réagir. Cet ouvrage analyse l'avenir de la supériorité aérienne à l'horizon 2030, les conséquences de son déclin éventuel et les voies et moyens qui permettraient de freiner cette évolution."--P. [4] of cover.

• Tables; Figures; Foreword; A Note on the End of an Era; Acknowledgments; Introduction; What Created Success?; Strategic Culture; Relevance of the Study;
• 1. Preparing for War: Naval Education Between the World Wars; Introduction; Studying "The Right Stuff"; Study, Gaming, and Wartime Reality; The Naval Air Debate; The Carrier Debate; The Debate over Doctrine; War Plans; Implications for the War against Japan; Preparing for War; The United States Naval Academy and Strategic Culture; "Everybody Works but John Paul Jones"; Sound Military Decision; Strategic Culture in the Wartime Navy.

• Conclusio
• n2. The Battle of the Coral Sea; Japanese Opening Moves and Plans; Japan's Forces in the Pacific Area; The Situation in the Pacific in the Summer of 1942; Japanese Plans and Preparations; The American Plan; Operational Imperatives; The Tulagi Invasion; Prelude to the Main Action; The Main Action; Coral Sea in Retrospect: Conclusions;
• 3. The Battle of Midway; Opening Phases; The Situation in the Pacific in the Late Spring of 1942; The Commander and His Opponent; Japanese Preparations; Decisions vs. Intelligence; How the Plans Played Out.

• Prelude to Action in the Aleutians and at MidwayInformation Available to the Japanese Commander; Japanese Force Deployments; Information Available to the American Commander; American Command Relations; Aleutian Phase of the Operation; Midway Preliminary Action; Naval Air Station Midway 4 June Operations; Nagumo's Attack on Midway; Midway Carrier Action of 4 June 1942; Clash of Titans; Operations of the Hornet Air Group on 4 June; Operations of the Enterprise Air Group on 4 June; Operations of the Yorktown Air Group on 4 June; Recapping the Action; The Inevitable Japanese Counterattack.

• Death of the Kido ButaiJapan's Contemplated Night Action; Operations of 5 June; Operations of 6 June; Operations of 7 June; Midway in Retrospect: Conclusions;
• 4. The Fight for Guadalcanal: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons; Strategic Reappraisal; The Fight for Guadalcanal; Choosing a Commander; The Battle of Savo Island; Where Is Task Force 61? All the World Wonders; The Battle of the Eastern Solomons; Carrier Battle of 24 August 1942; Retirement from the Area and Aftermath; The Battle of the Eastern Solomons in Retrospect; Conclusions; Epitaph;
• 5. The Battle of Santa Cruz.

• The Battle for GuadalcanalPrelude to the Battle of Santa Cruz; Evidence of a Japanese Offensive; The Battle of Santa Cruz; The U.S. Carrier Strike; The Japanese Strikes; Results of the Battle; Continued Surface Action in the Solomons; Battle of Santa Cruz in Retrospect: Conclusions;
• 6. Battle of the Philippine Sea; Japan's "Absolute National Defense Line"; SLOCs to Victory Secured; MacArthur on a Roll; The U.S. Debate on Strategy; Executing the Combined Chiefs' Strategy; Central Solomons and New Britain: The Second Phase; Numbered Fleets; Operation "Elkton" and the Dual Advance on Rabaul.

A longtime professor at the Naval War College who once directed strategic and long-range planning for the Navy and Marine Corps in Europe considers the transformation of the U.S. Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense force into an offensive risk-taking navy in the very early stages of World War II. Noting that none of the navy's most significant World War II leaders were commissioned before the Spanish-American War and none participated in any important offensive operations in World War I, Douglas Smith examines the premise that education, rather than experience in battle, accounts for that transformation. In this book, Smith evaluates his premise by focusing on the five carrier battles of the second world war to determine the extent to which the inter-war education of the major operational commanders translated into their decision processes, and the extent to which their interaction during their educational experiences transformed them from risk-adverse to risk-accepting in their operational concepts. His book will interest students of the Pacific War, naval aviation, education, and leadership. About the Author Douglas V. Smith is Professor of Strategy and Head of the Strategy and Policy Division at the U.S. Naval War College. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Naval Postgraduate School, and Naval War College, and holds a Ph.D. in military history from Florida State University.
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• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements;
• Chapter 1 Introduction;
• Chapter 2 Airborne Intelligence Sources;
• Chapter 3 Air-to-Air Case Studies;
• Chapter 4 Tactical and Strategic Heavy-Lifting;
• Chapter 5 Maritime Air Power;
• Chapter 6 Air Power and Strategic Effect;
• Chapter 7 Air Power and Tactical Effect;
• Chapter 8 Conclusions; Bibliography.

No other technical development since the introduction of gunpowder has had as great an influence on warfare as the aircraft. From its early beginnings as simply a means of aerial reconnaissance to its utter supremacy on the battlefield, the aircraft has evolved into the most versatile and precise killing machine known to man. In this wide-ranging and comprehensive study, David Sloggett, an internationally-respected defence analyst, investigates the changing role and increasing significance of air power over the course of the previous 100 years. This is accomplished by detailing every major conflict during that period including not only the two world wars and the recent conflicts in the Middle East but also the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Falklands War and Russian use of air power in Afghanistan. Air power's role in Malaya, Oman, Kenya and in Northern Ireland is also explained. A Century of Air Power is the most important study of the use of military aircraft ever undertaken and as such provides valuable lessons for the future - not only for the commanders who have to apply these all-powerful weapons but also for the politicians who have to determine its use.
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• Airborne intelligence sources
• Air-to-air case studies
• Tactical and strategic heavy-lifting
• Maritime air power
• Air power and strategic effect
• Air power and tactical effect
• Conclusions.

No other technical development since the introduction of gunpowder has had as great an influence on warfare as the aircraft. From its early beginnings as simply a means of aerial reconnaissance to its utter supremacy on the battlefield, the aircraft has evolved into the most versatile and precise killing machine known to man. In this wide-ranging and comprehensive study, David Sloggett, an internationally-respected defence analyst, investigates the changing role and increasing significance of air power over the course of the previous 100 years. This is accomplished by detailing every major conflict during that period including not only the two world wars and the recent conflicts in the Middle East but also the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Falklands War and Russian use of air power in Afghanistan. Air power's role in Malaya, Oman, Kenya and in Northern Ireland is also explained. A Century of Air Power is the most important study of the use of military aircraft ever undertaken and as such provides valuable lessons for the future - not only for the commanders who have to apply these all-powerful weapons but also for the politicians who have to determine its use.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Situating Moods - Aviation Enthusiasts and Fear
• Chapter 2: Anticipating New Weapons - Theorizing Aerial Warfare
• Chapter 3: "The Dew of Death" - Dueling Perspectives on Poison Gas
• Chapter 4: C.G. Grey and J.B.S. Haldane - Two Professional Men, Two Ideologies
• Chapter 5: The Psychology of the Terror Victim in the Spanish Civil War - Morale and Defiance
• Chapter 6: Criticism from the Left - Gas Masks, Refuge Rooms, and Deep Shelters
• Chapter 7: Terror From the Skies - Wartime and the Challenge to Civil Liberties
• Chapter 8: Britishness - Civilians on the Home Front and National Identity
• Chapter 9: Architecture and Idealism - The Finsbury Deep Shelter Project
• Chapter 10: Dissent, Patriotism and the Final Showdown Over Deep Shelter Policy Conclusions: Violence and Terror - Reflections on Perpetual Fears.
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In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration. In the age of H.G. Wells and Biggles, the opening up of the air to balloons and planes- the Royal Flying Corps was founded in 1912 - appealed to concepts of courage and bravery which would be both encouraged and undermined by the experiences of World War I. The sky also held new terrors for everyday people who were now within reach of an airborne enemy- these fears included the possibilities of bombing, poison gas, surveillance and social contol. This duality of fear and enthusiasm drove the Air Raid Precaution movement, while vocal elements in the press and in parliament called for radical plans to cope with apocalyptic scenarios. Here, Michele Haapamaki charts the history of flight and of war in the air in the early twentieth century, addressing the key issues of interwar historiography such as patriotism, fear, masculinity and propaganda.
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• Summary.
• Methodology.
• Background: from protests to armed conflict.
• Applicable international humanitarian law.
• Deliberate attacks on bakeries.
• Attacks on hospitals.
• Cluster bomb attacks.
• Other unlawful air strikes.
• Incendiary weapons.
• Recommendations.
• Acknowledgements.

Since July 2012, government air strikes in opposition-controlled areas in Syria have reportedly killed more than 4,000 civilians, injured thousands of people, and destroyed civilian property and infrastructure. The evidence gathered by Human Rights Watch strongly indicates that 59 of these attacks were deliberate attacks against civilians or indiscriminate attacks, in violation of the laws of war. This report documents the unlawful air strikes. The deliberate and indiscriminate attacks appear to be part of systematic and widespread attacks against the civilian population that Human Rights Watch previously found to constitute crimes against humanity. In many strikes documented in this report, the Syrian Air Force used large, high-explosive munitions, sometimes destroying multiple houses in a single attack. Human Rights Watch also collected information on dozens of attacks involving cluster munitions, weapons that have been banned by most nations because of their indiscriminate nature, and incendiary weapons, which can cause particularly cruel injuries to both civilians and combatants.

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Denying Flight: Strategic Options for Employing No-Fly Zones; Keeping Their Feet on the Ground: No-Fly Zones in Theory and Practice; No-Fly Zone Precursors; Bosnia: Operation Deny Flight; Iraq: Operations Provide Comfort, Northern Watch, and Southern Watch; Libya: Operations Odyssey Dawn and Unified Protector; Variations on the Theme NFZ; Drawing a Line in the Sky; Dealing with Air Defenses; No-Fly Zone Objectives, Limitations, and Options; Preventing the Use of Airpower; Coercing Adversaries; Preparing Future Battlefields.

• Weakening Potential EnemiesPolitical Posturing; Signaling or Creating Commitment; Future Employment of No-Fly Zones; Maximizing Coercive Potential; Looking Toward Syria; Vectors for Future Research; References.

In recent years, discussions about external military intervention in local conflicts have often included consideration of no-fly zones (NFZs) as a policy option. In the past two decades, the U.S. Air Force has participated in three contingencies involving NFZs over Bosnia, Iraq, and Libya, and NFZ proposals have been proffered for some time as an option for intervention in the Syrian civil war that would avoid placing Western troops on the ground. This paper provides a preliminary look at NFZs as a strategic approach in such situations. It evaluates the possible objectives of NFZs, including (1) preventing the use of airpower, (2) coercing adversaries, (3) preparing future battlefields, (4) weakening potential enemies, (5) political posturing, and (6) signaling or creating commitment, and discusses the potential utility and probable limitations of each.

In recent years, discussions about external military intervention in local conflicts have often included consideration of no-fly zones (NFZs) as a policy option. In the past two decades, the U.S. Air Force has participated in three contingencies involving NFZs over Bosnia, Iraq, and Libya, and NFZ proposals have been proffered for some time as an option for intervention in the Syrian civil war that would avoid placing Western troops on the ground. This paper provides a preliminary look at NFZs as a strategic approach in such situations. It evaluates the possible objectives of NFZs, including (1) preventing the use of airpower, (2) coercing adversaries, (3) preparing future battlefields, (4) weakening potential enemies, (5) political posturing, and (6) signaling or creating commitment, and discusses the potential utility and probable limitations of each.

The arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mount - the hill at the edge of the field of combat - and the fortified tower positioned within it. Since then there has been no perspective more culpable in war, violence, and security than the aerial one. This book explores the aerial view in new depth and clarity. It draws in vivid detail on studies of the aerial perspective today and on rich empirical investigations of the aerial view from the past.

• Introduction: Visual Culture and Verticality / Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead and Alison Williams
• SECTION ONE. SCIENCE, MILITARISM AND DISTANCE
• The Balloon Prospect : Aerostatic Observation and the Emergence of Militarised Aeromobility / Caren Kaplan
• Lines of Descent / Derek Gregory
• Aerial Surveying, Geopolitical Competition and the Falkland Islands Dependency Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE 1955-7) / Klaus Dodds
• Networks, Nodes and De-Territorialised Battlespace : The Scopic Regime of Rapid Dominance / Martin Coward
• Photomosaics : Mapping the Front, Mapping the City / Paul K. Saint-Amour
• SECTION TWO. AERIAL AESTHETICS, DISTORTION AND THE VIEW FROM BELOW
• "Concealing the Crude" : Airmindedness and the Camouflaging of Britain's Oil Installations, 1936-9 / James Robinson
• Flying into the Unknown : Cinematic Cultures of War and the Aesthetics of Disappearance / John Armitage
• Project Transparent Earth and the Autoscopy of Aerial Targeting : The Visual Geopolitics of the Underground / Ryan Bishop
• AFP-731 or The Other Night Sky : An Allegory / Trevor Paglen
• SECTION THREE. FROM CLOSE TO REMOTE
• The Pain of Love : The Invention of Aerial Surveillance in British Iraq / Priya Satia
• Targeting Affective Life From Above : Morale and Airpower / Ben Anderson
• Ecologies of the Wayward Drone / Jordan Crandall
• Satellite Images, Security and the Geopolitical Imagination / David Campbell.

The arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mount - the hill at the edge of the field of combat - and the fortified tower positioned within it. Since then there has been no perspective more culpable in war, violence and security than the aerial one. From Above explores the aerial view in new depth and clarity. It draws in vivid detail on studies of the aerial perspective today and on rich empirical investigations of the aerial view from the past. Chapters examine a range of case studies and examples, from Vietnam and the balloon prospect, camouflage, colonial policing, to today's drone wars. The contributors draw on perspectives from history, international relations, political geography and cultural studies in order to provide a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the view from above. They also consider the view from above in relation to its technologies, legalities, practices, doctrines, and visual culture. Among the contributors are renowned international experts such as Derek Gregory, Trevor Paglen, Caren Kaplan, Klaus Dodds and Priya Satia. The aerial view is a perspective that can no longer be ignored, one that is of growing sig- nificance for those interested in geopolitics, militarism and conflict.
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The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's 'famous few' held Goering's Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, thereby changing the course of the war. For much of the 20th century, warplanes were fixed in the world's imagination, a symbol of the perils and excitements of the modern era. Aviators have always seemed different to soldiers and sailors--more adventurous and imaginative. Their stories gripped the public and in both wars and air aces dominated each side's propaganda, capturing hearts and dreams. Writing with the verve, passion and the sheer narrative aplomb familiar to many thousands of readers from his bestselling World War II aerial histories, "Fighter Boys" and "Bomber Boys, " Patrick Bishop's "Wings" is a rich and compelling account of military flying from its heroic early days to the present.
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• Carl A. Spaatz: Bomber baron / Richard G. Davis
• George C. Kenney: "A kind of renaissance airman" / Alan Stephens
• Otto P. Weyland: "Best damn general in the Air Corps" / Richard R. Muller
• Curtis E. Lemay: Airman extraordinary / Williamson Murray
• William H. Tunner: Master of airlift / James S. Corum
• George E. Stratemeyer: Organizer of air power / Thomas A. Keaney
• William W. Momyer: An air power mind / Case Cunningham
• John W. Vogt: The Easter Offensive and Nixon's War in Vietnam / Stephen P. Randolph
• Charles A. Horner: Desert Storm maestro / Richard P. Hallion
• Michael E. Ryan: Architect of air power success / Mark A. Bucknam
• Michael C. Short: Airman undaunted / Rebecca L. Grant
• T. Michael Moseley: Air power warrior / James D. Kiras.

Air Commanders combines short military biographies and operational analyses to reveal how the personalities, attitudes, and life experiences of twelve outstanding U.S. airmen shaped the central air campaigns in American history. From Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, who began his career in World War I, to the contemporary Gen. T. Michael "Buzz" Moseley, the case studies illuminate the character of these airmen, the challenges they confronted in widely disparate armed conflicts, and the solutions that they crafted and implemented. Their achievements proved decisive not only in the campaigns they led, but also in shaping the U.S. Air Force and the dominant role of airpower in modern warfare.
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• Carl A. Spaatz: Bomber baron / Richard G. Davis
• George C. Kenney: "A kind of renaissance airman" / Alan Stephens
• Otto P. Weyland: "Best damn general in the Air Corps" / Richard R. Muller
• Curtis E. Lemay: Airman extraordinary / Williamson Murray
• William H. Tunner: Master of airlift / James S. Corum
• George E. Stratemeyer: Organizer of air power / Thomas A. Keaney
• William W. Momyer: An air power mind / Case Cunningham
• John W. Vogt: The Easter Offensive and Nixon's War in Vietnam / Stephen P. Randolph
• Charles A. Horner: Desert Storm maestro / Richard P. Hallion
• Michael E. Ryan: Architect of air power success / Mark A. Bucknam
• Michael C. Short: Airman undaunted / Rebecca L. Grant
• T. Michael Moseley: Air power warrior / James D. Kiras.

Air Commanders combines short military biographies and operational analyses to reveal how the personalities, attitudes, and life experiences of twelve outstanding U.S. airmen shaped the central air campaigns in American history. From Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, who began his career in World War I, to the contemporary Gen. T. Michael "Buzz" Moseley, the case studies illuminate the character of these airmen, the challenges they confronted in widely disparate armed conflicts, and the solutions that they crafted and implemented. Their achievements proved decisive not only in the campaigns they led, but also in shaping the U.S. Air Force and the dominant role of airpower in modern warfare.
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• Strike warfare operations
• Targets
• Defenses
• Strike resources
• Strike support
• Finding the target
• Defeating the defenses
• Rules of engagement
• Strike planning
• Strike execution
• Strike weapons development
• Security
• Defining the need
• Evaluating alternatives
• Design criteria
• Development
• Qualification
• Production
• Deployment and support
• Upgrades
• Retirement
• Epilogue
• Appendix A. Glossary of terms
• Appendix B. Generic design criteria
• Appendix C. Military designations and weapons names
• Appendix D. Strike weapons characteristics
• Appendix E. Sources of additional information.

• Preface: The Last Dogfight
• 1. Pilots of the Purple Twilight
• 2. A Wing and a Prayer
• 3. Archie
• 4. The New Front Line
• 5. Death, Drink, Luck
• 6.The Third Service
• 7. Jonah's Gourd
• 8. Arming for Armageddon
• 9. Into Battle
• 10. Apotheosis
• 11. Flying Blind
• 12. Seabirds
• 13. Wind, Sand and Stars
• 14. No Moon Tonight
• 15. Air Supremacy
• 16. Jet
• 17. 'Fox Two Away!'
• 18. Per Ardua ad Astra.

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's 'famous few' - the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command - held Goeering's Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, thereby changing the course of the war. For much of the twentieth century, warplanes were fixed in the world's imagination, a symbol of the perils and excitements of the modern era. But within the space of a hundred years, military aviation has morphed from the exotic to the mundane. An activity which was charged with danger - the domain of the daring - is now carried out by computers and pilotless drones. Aviators have always seemed different to soldiers and sailors - more adventurous, questing and imaginative. Their stories gripped the public and in both wars and air aces dominated each side's propaganda, capturing hearts and dreams. Writing with the verve, passion and the sheer narrative aplomb familiar to many thousands of readers from his bestselling Second World War aerial histories, Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, Patrick Bishop's Wings is a rich and compelling account of military flying from its heroic early days to the present.
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• The helicopter goes to war
• Carving a combat niche
• Helicopter development
• Early days in Vietnam
• Vietnam, 1967 : changes in scale, tactics, and results
• The helicopter as an instrument of compassion
• Changes in helicopters, changes in warfare
• Helicopter development and deployment in the U.S.S.R
• Operations in the Middle East
• Other wars and the growth of foreign helicopter technology
• Appendix one: From before Leonardo da Vinci to 1939 : the development of the helicopter.

This is an engrossing and enlightening survey of the evolution of the helicopter in modern warfare. When the helicopter was introduced into military service - initially as a medium for observation, transport, and medical evacuation - during World War II, few people could have imagined the profound effect it would come to have on virtually all aspects of modern warfare. "How the Helicopter Changed Modern Warfare" is an engrossing in-depth study, by noted military aviation expert Walter Boyne, which examines the origins, growth, and future of the helicopter in all areas of modern warfare - from tactical and strategic dominance on the battlefield to medical evacuation and even remotely-manned reconnaissance and conflict.
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In this book, RAND provides an evaluation of the Navy's ongoing and proposed unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) programs and describes the most promising applications of those UASs to the Navy1s operational tasks. The book identifies robust communications as a key enabler for UASs in many operational tasks and recommends steps the Navy can take to ensure these communications are available.
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• Part 1. 1914-1945: The First World War, 1914-1919 / John H. Morrow, Jr. ; The air war in Europe, 1939-1945 / Richard Over ; The air war in the Pacific, 1941-1945 / Richard R. Muller
• Part 2. 1945-1990: The air war in Korea, 1950-1953 / Alan Stephens ; Operations over North Vietnam, 1963-1973 / Wayne Thompson ; Air superiority in the Israel-Arab Wars, 1967-1982 / Shmuel I. Gordon ; Air power and the Falklands, 1982 / Lawrence Freedman
• Part 3. 1990-2000: Operation Desert Storm, 1991 / John Andreas Olsen ; Operation Deliberate Force, 1995 / Robert C. Owen ; Operation Allied Force, 1999 / Tony Mason
• Part 4. 2000-2006: Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001 / Benjamin S. Lambeth ; Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 / Williamson Murray ; The second Lebanon War, 2006 / Itai Brun
• Part 5. Perspectives: Air power in small wars, 1913 to the present / James S. Corum ; The rise and fall of air power / Martin van Creveld ; Air and space power: climbing and accelerating / Richard P. Hallion.

***Selected for the 2010 Chief of the United States Air Force's Reading List*** This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century. Comprising sixteen essays penned by a global cadre of leading military experts, A History of Air Warfare chronologically examines the utility of air power from the First World War to the second Lebanon war, campaign by campaign. Each essay lays out the objectives, events, and key players of the conflict in question, reviews the role of air power in the strategic and operational contexts, and explores the interplay between the political framework and military operations proper. The concluding section offers wider perspectives by focusing on air and space power in both unconventional and conventional warfare from 1913 to the present. More than a simple homage to air power, A History of Air Warfare exposes air power's strengths and weaknesses and, where relevant, illuminates the challenges of joint operations and coalition warfare. Because of its critical approach, even treatment, and historical background, the book will appeal to modern warfare scholars, air power specialists, and general readers interested in military history alike.
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***Selected for the 2010 Chief of the United States Air Force's Reading List*** This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century. Comprising sixteen essays penned by a global cadre of leading military experts, A History of Air Warfare chronologically examines the utility of air power from the First World War to the second Lebanon war, campaign by campaign. Each essay lays out the objectives, events, and key players of the conflict in question, reviews the role of air power in the strategic and operational contexts, and explores the interplay between the political framework and military operations proper. The concluding section offers wider perspectives by focusing on air and space power in both unconventional and conventional warfare from 1913 to the present. More than a simple homage to air power, A History of Air Warfare exposes air power's strengths and weaknesses and, where relevant, illuminates the challenges of joint operations and coalition warfare. Because of its critical approach, even treatment, and historical background, the book will appeal to modern warfare scholars, air power specialists, and general readers interested in military history alike.
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