Since the end of the Cold War the United States and other major powers have wielded their air forces against much weaker state and non-state actors. In this age of primacy, air wars have been contests between unequals and characterized by asymmetries of power, interest, and technology. This volume examines ten contemporary wars where air power played a major and at times decisive role. Its chapters explore the evolving use of unmanned aircraft against global terrorist organizations as well as more conventional air conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against ISIS. Air superiority could be assumed in this unique and brief period where the international system was largely absent great power competition. However, the reliable and unchallenged employment of a spectrum of manned and unmanned technologies permitted in the age of primacy may not prove effective in future conflicts.

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Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2021

ISBN

9781108996587

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

International Relations

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations
1 Air Power in the Age of Primacy: Air Warfare since the Cold War
2 Remote Warfare: A New Architecture of Air Power
3 Deliberate Force: Ambivalent Success
4 Hoping for Victory: Coercive Air Power and NATO’s Strategy in Kosovo
5 Operation Enduring Freedom: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Air Power over Afghanistan
6 The Result Is Never Final: Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Greater Thirty Years War, 1990–
7 Israeli Air Force Effectiveness during the Second Lebanon War (2006)
8 Libya 2011: Hollow Victory in Low-Cost Air War
9 Coercing a Chaos State: The Saudi-Led Air War in Yemen
10 Russia’s Air War Win in Syria: A Kinetic Approach to Counterinsurgency
11 Air Power in the Battle of Mosul
12 Retrospect and Prospect: Air Power in the Age of Primacy and Beyond
Index