Air warfare
- Editor(s):
- Boyer, Y.; Lindley-French, J.
Abstract
Several interrelated technological and doctrinal developments over the past two decades have changed the character of air warfare and indeed of the US-led Western way of war in general. It is notably dierent from the images of air warfare in the total wars of the twentieth century and was central in what has been termed the ‘revolution in military aairs’ of the 1990s. Recent wars, both conventional and irregular, have demonstrated the increased utility of the resultant new air power capabilities but also the necessity for ensuring proper strategic preconditions for eectuating the potential of postindustrial-age armed forces, of which air power is the cutting edge.
