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Mitigating the Backlash: US Airpower as a Military Instrument of Policy

Mitigating the Backlash: US Airpower as a Military Instrument of Policy

Buono, Suzanne C.
Air University (U S ) School of Advance

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General Education

ISBN10: 1249413494
ISBN13: 9781249413493
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Published: Sep 17 2012
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.22 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
In this paper I make the case for the United States' increasing need to use primarily airpower to fight its battles. The primary reason is that airpower is the form of US military might that is least likely to antagonize others when employed, while still retaining robust combat capability. A secondary goal is to demonstrate that airpower has the capability to achieve a large measure of the policy objectives that are likely to be pursued through military means in the near term. The core of this thesis lies in the proposition that by employing airpower as the military instrument of choice when armed force is called for, the US will arouse less negative reaction than would the large-scale deployment of ground forces. ...--Abstract from web site.

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