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So I am thinking about a few different things and people overnight and a common thread came into play... The Air Force.

Pakistan's present and future war
Source: The news

India has carried out a revaluation of its strategic options with Pakistan, and the coming years could witness an all-out strategy of coercion by it, a strategy so effectively applied by Israel in the Middle East.

Bombs Away Over Iraq: A History Of Air Power From Guernica To Arab Jamour
Source: TomDispatch

Neither paper has (as far as I know) returned to the subject, though this is undoubtedly the most extensive use of air power in Iraq since the Bush administration's invasion of 2003 and probably represents a genuine shifting of American military strategy in that country.

Report: Israel 'blinded' Syrian radar - Israel News, Ynetnews
Source: CNET News.com

After Israeli missile strike on Syria confirmed by both sides, the question remains – how did Israel's non-stealth jets infiltrate Syrian airspace undetected? US aerospace experts tell Aviation Week magazine that Israel used new US-developed technology that lets users invade an …

The Death Of US Air Power
Source: Military Space News

Now that America has an Islamo-centric security posture, any danger that doesn't fit within the counter-fundamentalist framework tends to be ignored. That's sort of ironic, since the biggest military threats to democracy in the last century came from atheists.

The Modern Major General: The Ghost of Curtis LeMay and the Myth of Modern Air Power
Source: Progressive Historians/Dr. Omed

Curtis Emerson LeMay is, as architects don't like journalists to put it, "the principal architect," of one of the most pernicious memes in human history: The myth of strategic air power; the idea that the possession and use of technologically superior weaponry raining death from …

The End of the Air-Power Doctrine?

Throughout the history of warfare, changes in technology and strategic thought have brought about a constant ebb and flow in military doctrine.

Collateral damage, by Tom Engelhardt
Source: Le Monde diplomatique

The contemporary barbarism of air power Collateral damage

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