Sustained Coercive Air : Presence Provide Comfort, Deny Flight, and the Future of Airpower in Peace Enforcement

By Major George D. Kramlinger

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Title:	Sustained Coercive Air : Presence Provide Comfort, Deny Flight, and the Future of Airpower in Peace Enforcement
Author:	Major George D. Kramlinger
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Military Science, Sustained Coercive Air Presence
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Publisher:	Air University Press

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Citation APA MLA Chicago George D. Kramlinge, B. M. (n.d.). Sustained Coercive Air : Presence Provide Comfort, Deny Flight, and the Future of Airpower in Peace Enforcement. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Sustained Coercive Air Presence (SCAP) is an airpower approach to peace enforcement designed to impose a cease-fire on an unwilling belligerent and then use a prolonged air presence to enhance long-term diplomatic efforts that seek a political solution. The competing agendas and political infighting associated with United Nations and coalition operations also seriously hinders a SCAP strategy. Nonetheless, if politicians decide on an airpower approach to peace enforcement, SCAP in concert with the economic, informational, and political instruments of power is a viable strategy against a modern, well-armed foe.

Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . 1 2 THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF SUSTAINED COERCIVE AIR PRESENCE . . . . . 7 3 OPERATION PROVIDE COMFORT . . . . 19 4 COERCIVE AIRPOWER OVER BOSNIA–HERZEGOVINA . . . . 39 5 CONCLUSION . . . . 59