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Airpower or air power consists of the application of

powered flight early in the 20th century. Airpower represents a "complex operating environment that has been subjected to considerable debate".[1][2] British doctrine defines airpower as "the ability to project power from the air and space to influence the behaviour of people or the course of events."[1] The Australian Experience of Air Power defines Airpower as being composed of Control of the Air, Strike, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and Air Mobility roles.[3]

Definition

F-16 Fighting Falcon
jet fighters on a runway

Airpower can be considered a function of air supremacy and numbers. Roughly speaking, a combatant side that has 100% or near 100% control of the skies has air supremacy; an advantage of some 70–90% would indicate

An-2
) resulting in high capacity but low long-term survivability demonstrate that 'air power' is multi-faceted and complex.

Significant contributors to theorizing about air power have been Giulio Douhet, Billy Mitchell, John Boyd and John A. Warden III.

At the start of World War I, opinions differed on the national air forces and the value of airships.[4][5] Some early strategists/visionaries after

cargo planes
, providing a decisive edge in mobility.

militarization of space remains regulated by international treaty.[citation needed
]

client nations using aircraft
developed by one or more of these nations. A mass technological base is considered necessary for the development of airpower.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Royal Air Force: Role of Air Power Archived 2011-03-16 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed on March 13, 2011.
  2. ^ *Jordan, David: Air and Space Warfare, in: Jordan, David et al.: Understanding Modern Warfare, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009, p. 219
  3. ^ Royal Australian Air Force: AAP1000-D The Air Power Manual . Accessed on March 13, 2011.
  4. ^ ""How powers are prepared for the First Aero War" – the NAL reviews contemporary press reports at the outbreak of WWI" Royal Aeronautical Society, 11 August 2014. Accessed: 5 September 2014.
  5. ^ Noel, Percy. "How powers are prepared for first aero war" Aero and hydro, 8 August 1914. Accessed: 5 September 2014.

Further reading

  • Baner, Carl. "Defining Aerospace Power", Air and Space Power Journal, March 11, 1999 online
  • Black, Jeremy. Air Power: A Global History (2016), by leading scholar
  • Budiansky, Stephen. Air Power: The Men, Machines & Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II (2004) 495p. scholarly history 1900 to 1999.
  • Daso, Dik Alan. Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower (2001) excerpt and text search
  • Higham, Robin and Mark Parillo, eds. The Influence of Airpower Upon History: Statesmanship, Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy Since 1903 (University Press of Kentucky; 2013) 137 pages; essays on the use of airpower by Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and other countries. excerpt and text search
  • Gray, Colin Spencer. Understanding Airpower,
    AFRI
    : Maxwell, March 2009.
  • Jordan, David. "Air and Space Warfare", in: Jordan, David et al.: Understanding Modern Warfare (Cambridge University Press 2009), pp. 182–223,
    ISBN 978-0-521-70038-2
    .
  • Meilinger, Philip S. Ten Propositions Regarding Airpower (1993) online
  • Meilinger, Philip S. ed. The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory (2012)
  • Mueller, Karl P. Air Power (RAND Corporation, 2010) online
  • Neocleous, Mark. "Air power as police power." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 31.4 (2013): 578–593.
  • Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of Air Power (1986)

Historiography

  • Capra, James L. "Fighting with the air: airpower, violence, and public sentiment in irregular warfare" (MA thesis, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, 2016) online
  • Clodfelter, Mark. The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam (2006)
  • Faber, Peter. "Competing Theories of Airpower: A Language for Analysis" online
  • Hoffman, Bruce. British Air Power in Peripheral Conflict, 1919-1976 (RAND, 1989) online.
  • Meilinger, Phillip. "Military Theory: Airpower" in Charles Messenger, ed. Reader's Guide to Military History (2001) pp. 376–79 online
  • Vallance, Andrew G.B. The air weapon: doctrines of air power strategy and operational art (1996).

External links

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