AFDDEC Research Paper 2007-2, The Airpower Advantage in Future Warfare : The Need for Strategy

By Colin S Gray

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Title:	AFDDEC Research Paper 2007-2, The Airpower Advantage in Future Warfare : The Need for Strategy
Author:	Colin S Gray
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Technology, War
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Publisher:	Air University Press

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Citation APA MLA Chicago S Gray, B. C. (n.d.). AFDDEC Research Paper 2007-2, The Airpower Advantage in Future Warfare : The Need for Strategy. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Technical innovation lies at the heart of the case for privileging airpower in the American way of war, but such innovation comprises only one of warfare’s seven vital contexts. The sheer complexity of war and warfare renders prediction, technological and other, a high-risk activity. The contexts of war and warfare are (1) political, (2) societal-cultural, (3)economic, (4) technological, (5) military-strategic, (6) geographical, and (7) historical.

Table of Contents
DISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ii ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii THE AIRPOWER ADVANTAGE IN FUTURE WARFARE: THE NEED FOR STRATEGY . . . . . . .1 Plan of Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Why this Study? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Airpower Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Issues and Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Future Warfare: Contextual Realities . . . . . 20 US Airpower Advantage in Future Warfare . . 30 NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35