Understanding Airpower: Bon?re of the Fallacies Review
Understanding Airpower: Bon?re of the Fallacies Feature
In this study, a noted strategist addresses assumptions and conventionally held ideas about airpower that are wrong. Professor Gray identi?es and discusses nine fallacies: (1) the USAF should abandon large-scale regular warfare; (2) airpower is inherently a strategic weapon; (3) airpower is driven by technology rather than ideas; (4) airpower is about targeting; (5) airpower must be subordinate to land power; (6) the theory of strategic airpower is ?awed; (7) an independent USAF interferes with an effective joint force structure; (8) airpower is a minor player in counterinsurgency (COIN); and ?nally, a longstanding issue, (9) the twenty-?rst century is about missiles, space, and cyber power and airpower is yesterday's revolution. The discussion of these "fallacies" should stimulate the appetite of most thoughtful Airmen, but also serious advocates of all services and everyone interested in national defense. (Originally published by the Air Force Research Institute)
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