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|a Pape, Robert A.
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|a The true worth of air power
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|a This article focuses on the precision air weapons of the U.S. Air Force. The country has chalked up a tremendous military record in the precision age. It has won five major wars at the cost of only about 400 combat fatalities overall. Precision air power played an important role in the victories. Long before the age of precision weapons, the Air Force used mass strikes to destroy political and economic targets. Precision weapons have not increased the coercive effectiveness of the tactics but they made it possible to destroy similar targets with fewer sorties. More important, improved bombing accuracy means that the hammer-and-anvil strategy is far more potent than before. Attacking the enemy simultaneously by air and on the ground puts the enemy army in a quandary. Combined power works best when it exploits the tactics commonly used by large mechanized armies in the modern warfare. Since World War II, attackers in mechanized warfarw have usually tried to break through the enemy line and then advance, through the breach, deep into enemy territory. To prevent such breakthroughs, defenders typically seek to build formidable front lines so that any section that is attacked can hold out until local reserves arrive.
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|a Foreign Affairs; Mar/Apr 2004, (Vol.83 Issue 2)
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