| One axiom of modern warfare is that airpower cannot conquer, control or hold ground. |
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| Well, all of our wars have demonstrated that airpower is but one part of the national strength. |
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| A nearly flawless operational application of airpower cannot substitute for a flawed strategy. |
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| Along these lines, senior Air Force leaders have acknowledged the importance of airbases to projecting airpower anywhere on the globe. |
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| He becomes a brother to the special forces and their Montagnard soldiers, smashing Vietcong units to bits with airpower. |
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| The development of stealth aircraft has had some transformational effects on airpower. |
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| Despite political protests from anti-American populists in Manila, the potent tool of U.S. airpower may well be applied. |
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| Like other volumes in this series, it candidly mentions not only the successes, but also the failures and defeats of airpower. |
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| The AOC directs airpower for a theater and the NOSC directs Net Operations. |
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| After undertaking preliminary study, participants tour airfields, command posts, ammunition dumps, and battlefields where airpower played a role. |
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| Boyne does not mirror every aspect of Mahan's book or compare sea power to airpower. |
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| Revisiting the Balkan wars may be a useful reminder about the limits of airpower. |
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| Moreover, counter to the positive effects of unlimited application of airpower, the gradualism of Allied Force may well be the norm for future coalition conflicts. |
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| The history of airpower in Europe during WWII is dramatically presented in this compelling story of tens of thousands of young airmen, many of who never returned. |
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| American airpower may not extend to Syria for some time, instead continuing to focus on IS in Iraq. There is other bad news for Mr Assad. |
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| But they are ineffectual if they disperse, and at the mercy of American airpower if they congregate. |
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| But airpower alone will never destroy every last rocket and prevent Hizbullah's fighters from continuing to send them off. |
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| Sadly, little mention is given to the use of airpower in the current campaign in Afghanistan. |
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| However, this soon eroded as the factions realized they could neutralize NATO airpower by exploiting the vulnerability of UNPROFOR on the ground. |
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| With the addition of American airpower, and the withdrawal of Pakistani support for their opponent, that coalition prevailed. |
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| A year ago, NATO launched its airpower to end the repression in Kosovo and succeeded. |
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| In fact, a number of our military people have trouble seeing how airpower and space power can contribute to operations short of major combat. |
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| France is opting to use heavy airpower as a way to flush out the Islamists in Mali. |
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| But AM-2 is not a friend to the agility that justifies the F-35B over other forms of expeditionary airpower. |
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| This led the Alliance to lukewarmly advocate airpower and little else. |
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| In late August, U.S. airpower and Iranian-backed militias broke the ISIS siege on the town of Amerli. |
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| There are reasons, though, to believe that Syrian airpower and air defenses are overrated. |
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| The idea of occupying and pacifying a country by airpower alone, or with the air force as the primary force employed, is especially attractive to airmen. |
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| Early airpower theorists were not only repelled by trench warfare. |
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| This new airpower structure will strengthen NATOs capacity to fulfil its role as a peacemaker, a peacekeeper, and a major international force for stability. |
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| The AIRNORTH JFACC represents a formidable capability light and lean, ready and able to deploy within hours to command airpower, wherever required in todays unpredictable security environment. |
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| Third, in order for the United States to conduct a major campaign, airpower will need between 15 and 20 air bases within a major region, and, once again, it is best not to plan on having all of them in any one nation. |
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| These two aspects of airpower permitted the German and Austrian attackers to use large-caliber guns to obliterate Russian strongpoints. |
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| The Czechs also have bolstered the Afghan Air Corps by providing helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, and now France also will supply airpower as well. |
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| In general, although future wars will still require ground forces, airpower and air superiority will continue to have decisive importance for operational success-despite all asymmetric forms of war. |
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| Remote ground and water sensors, combined with small surface patrols and airpower, offer a means of controlling these areas with minimal manpower. |
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| And the advancement of the JFACC concept, together with the dedicated training and resourcing of a JFACC at Ramstein, promises a formidable capability ready to command airpower, wherever and whenever required. |
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| While air strikes can work in open areas,... American airpower is much less useful in dense urban combat, where it's also likely to cause unacceptable amounts of civilian casualties. |
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| The steady increase in Allied airpower and effectiveness, and the realisation that NATO was holding together played a fundamental part in the Serb climb-down. |
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| I understand those who say that an increased troop level may reduce the requirements to use airpower and lead to a lower number of civilian casualties, but we should also admit the danger of the opposite happening. |
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| At the time of the 1999 crisis it was NATO that managed to enforce a ceasefire, following a series of bombing raids on Belgrade using US military airpower. |
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| In concert with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the aim should be to bring about the immediate lifting of the siege of Sarajevo, using all the means necessary including the use of airpower. |
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| His last active duty posting was as professor of military history at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies. |
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| Atlas Copco Airpower confirms its leadership in filtration through certifications and significant energy savings. |
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| Airpower is needed to help protect the flanks of rapidly advancing armored and mechanized units, and for providing on-call fire support for their lead elements. |
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| AirPower technology mixes water with air, using the Venturi effect, which increases the overall volume, meaning water flow is rich and soft, which prevents splashing. |
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