Nato Airpower

Author : Justin Bronk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000206586

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The Future of NATO Airpower by Justin Bronk Pdf

Airpower remains the cornerstone of NATO’s military advantage, so maintaining the ability to win air superiority over peer opponents in a conflict is key to long-term deterrence stability in both Europe and the Pacific. This Whitehall Paper examines the various modernisation and future capability development efforts being undertaken within NATO, and analyses the major threat systems and overall modernisation trends of the West’s main peer-competitors – Russia and China. US airpower capability development efforts are increasingly focused on countering the growing challenge from the Chinese military in the Pacific. To meet this challenge, the Pentagon is planning to transform the way it operates across all domains over the next 15 years. New platforms, weapons systems and increasing automation of command and control threaten to leave NATO allies behind. Current acquisition and modernisation plans of European air forces may eventually close the capability gap with current US theatre entry standard capabilities, but by then the US will have leapt ahead once more. Furthermore, many of the airpower capabilities which the US is pursuing for the Pacific theatre are significantly less relevant for the demands of deterrence against Russia in Europe. Given continuing dependence on US enablers on the part of other NATO members, a significant divergence in capability plans threatens to undermine crucial Alliance interoperability if not recognised and managed early.

Author : John Andreas Olsen
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682470763

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Airpower Applied by John Andreas Olsen Pdf

Airpower Applied reviews the evolution of airpower and its impact on the history of warfare. Through a critical examination of twenty-nine case studies in which various U.S. coalitions and Israel played significant roles, this book offers perspectives on the political purpose, strategic meaning, and military importance of airpower. By comparing and contrasting more than seventy-five years of airpower experience in very different circumstances, readers can gain insight into present-day thinking on the use of airpower and on warfare. The authors, all experts in their fields, demystify some of airpower‘s strategic history by extracting the most useful teachings to help military professionals and political leaders understand what airpower has to offer as a “continuation of politics by other means.” The case studies emphasize the importance of connecting policy and airpower: operational effectiveness cannot substitute for poor statecraft. As the United States, its allies, and Israel have seen in their most recent applications of airpower, even the most robust and capable air weapon can never be more effective than the strategy and policy it is intended to support.

Author : Willard E. Naslund
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Air defenses
ISBN : 0833014749

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NATO Airpower by Willard E. Naslund Pdf

In the future, NATO forces must be prepared to respond quickly to events in regions within and beyond its borders. This research addresses how this requirement will affect the organization of NATO forces, particularly airpower, by postulating two scenarios that would stress NATO to the extreme: (1) an attack by Russia on Poland, and (2) a Syria-Iraq attack on Turkey. The author uses these scenarios to develop operational concepts and alternative organizations that would enable NATO airpower to adapt to the uncertain post-Cold War environment. The report concludes that NATO's air reaction forces should be fully established in peacetime, prepared for operations independent from existing command structures, and that the future viability of these forces depends primarily on U.S. contributions.

Author : Anika Binnendijk,Gene Germanovich,Bruce McClintock,Sarah Heintz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 197740586X

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At the Vanguard by Anika Binnendijk,Gene Germanovich,Bruce McClintock,Sarah Heintz Pdf

Europe's air forces have the opportunity to make increasingly pronounced contributions to NATO's defense and deterrent posture in combat air campaigns, especially high-intensity operations requiring rapid and large-scale application of airpower.

Author : Karl P. Mueller
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833087935

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Precision and Purpose by Karl P. Mueller Pdf

Between March and October 2011, a coalition of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member states and several partner nations waged a war against Muammar Qaddafi's Libyan regime that stemmed and then reversed the tide of Libya's civil war, preventing Qaddafi from crushing the nascent rebel movement seeking to overthrow his dictatorship and going on to enable opposition forces to prevail. The central element of this intervention was a relatively small multinational force's air campaign operating from NATO bases in several countries, as well as from a handful of aircraft carriers and amphibious ships in the Mediterranean Sea. The study details each country's contribution to that air campaign, examining such issues as the limits of airpower and coordination among nations. It also explores whether the Libyan experience offers a potential model for the future.

Author : Mark A. Bucknam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000087814657

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Responsibility of Command by Mark A. Bucknam Pdf

In this study Colonel Mark A. Bucknam examines the role that theater-level commanders in the UN and NATO played in influencing airpower over Bosnia between April 1993 and December 1995. He presents it in a chronological order that offers a coherent account of Operation Deny Flight. This study challenges assumptions about military leaders, their motivations, and the state of civil-military relations during the Bosnia conflict.

Author : Peter R. March
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0304352381

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Freedom of the Skies by Peter R. March Pdf

"An illustrated narrative history of NATO airpower, from World War II vintage aircraft and the Berlin airlift to stealth bombers and peacekeeping in Bosnia. There are photographs from the archives of the major NATO airpowers, celebrating the men and aircraft that have kept the peace in Europe."

Author : Dag Henriksen
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612515557

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NATO's Gamble by Dag Henriksen Pdf

Selected for the 2008 Royal Air Force Reading List In this revealing work, Dag Henriksen discloses the origins and content of NATO's strategic and conceptual thinking on how the use of force was to succeed politically in altering the behavior of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). The air campaign, known as Operation Allied Force, was the first war against any sovereign nation in the history of NATO and the first major combat operation conducted for humanitarian purposes against a state committing atrocities within its own borders. This book examines the key political, diplomatic, and military processes that shaped NATO and U.S. management of the Kosovo crisis and shows how air power became the main instrument in their strategy to coerce the FRY to accede to NATO's demands. The book further shows that the military leaders set to execute the campaign had no clear strategic guidance on what the operation was to achieve and that the level of uncertainty was so high that the officers selecting the bombing targets watched NATO's military spokesman on CNN for guidance in choosing their targets. Henriksen argues that structures preceding the Kosovo crisis shaped the management to a much greater degree than events taking place in Kosovo and that the air power community's largely institutionalized focus on high-intensity conflicts, like the 1991 Gulf War, hampered them from developing strategies to fit the political complexities of crises. Because fighting and wars in the lower end of the intensity spectrum are likely to surface again, study of the Kosovo crisis offers lessons for future international conflicts in which the combination of force and diplomacy will play a very significant role.

Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Air warfare
ISBN : 1853108146

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Air War Bosnia by Tim Ripley Pdf

Luftkrigen under konflikten i det tidligere Jugoslavien.

Author : Michael Napier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472836892

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In Cold War Skies by Michael Napier Pdf

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, international relations across the globe were dominated by the Cold War. From 1949 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, US and Soviet strategic forces were deployed across the Arctic Ocean in North America and Northern Russia, while the best-equipped armed forces that the world had ever seen faced each other directly across the 'Iron Curtain' in Europe. In Cold War Skies examines the air power of the major powers both at a strategic and at a tactical level throughout the 40 years of the Cold War. In this fascinating book, acclaimed historian Michael Napier looks at each decade of the war in turn, examining the deployment of strategic offensive and defensive forces in North America and Northern Russia as well as the situation in Europe. He details the strategic forces and land-based tactical aircraft used by the air forces of the USA, USSR, NATO, Warsaw Pact countries and the European non-aligned nations. He also describes the aircraft types in the context of the units that operated them and the roles in which they were used. The text is supported by a wide range of first-hand accounts of operational flying during the Cold War, as well as numerous high-quality images.

Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Air forces
ISBN : 0891412948

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NATO Air Power by Robert Jackson Pdf

Author : Brian D. Laslie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472860316

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Operation Allied Force 1999 by Brian D. Laslie Pdf

A focused, illustrated history and analysis of perhaps the most complete air power victory in modern times, NATO's war against Serbian forces over Kosovo. On the night of March 24, 1999, NATO forces began military action to stop Serbia's campaign of repression during the Kosovo War. Initially planned to be a 72-hour operation, it took 78 days of sustained air warfare for Operation Allied Force to cause Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his forces. Despite such setbacks as the loss of an F-117 stealth fighter and the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Allied Force ended with perhaps the most complete airpower victory of modern times. However, there is a dearth of written histories on NATO's air war over Kosovo. In this book Dr Brian D. Laslie, one of the leading scholars of modern air power operations, offers a complete history of the campaign, based on a wide range of primary and secondary sources. Although predominantly a USAF effort, the campaign also featured multinational contributions as well as significant naval aviation. Using spectacular original battlescenes, maps and 3D diagrams, Dr Laslie examines the aircraft, weapons and doctrine used, the Serbian air defenses, how the Allied forces planned and launched their air campaign, and how NATO had to rapidly adapt its initial plans to achieve success.

Author : Benjamin S. Lambeth
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833032379

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NATO's Air War for Kosovo by Benjamin S. Lambeth Pdf

This book offers a thorough appraisal of Operation Allied Force, NATO's 78-day air war to compel the president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, to end his campaign of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. The author sheds light both on the operation's strengths and on its most salient weaknesses. He outlines the key highlights of the air war and examines the various factors that interacted to induce Milosevic to capitulate when he did. He then explores air power's most critical accomplishments in Operation Allied Force as well as the problems that hindered the operation both in its planning and in its execution. Finally, he assesses Operation Allied Force from a political and strategic perspective, calling attention to those issues that are likely to have the greatest bearing on future military policymaking. The book concludes that the air war, although by no means the only factor responsible for the allies' victory, certainly set the stage for Milosevic's surrender by making it clear that he had little to gain by holding out. It concludes that in the end, Operation Allied Force's most noteworthy distinction may lie in the fact that the allies prevailed despite the myriad impediments they faced.

Author : Michael Napier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472836892

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In Cold War Skies by Michael Napier Pdf

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, international relations across the globe were dominated by the Cold War. From 1949 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, US and Soviet strategic forces were deployed across the Arctic Ocean in North America and Northern Russia, while the best-equipped armed forces that the world had ever seen faced each other directly across the 'Iron Curtain' in Europe. In Cold War Skies examines the air power of the major powers both at a strategic and at a tactical level throughout the 40 years of the Cold War. In this fascinating book, acclaimed historian Michael Napier looks at each decade of the war in turn, examining the deployment of strategic offensive and defensive forces in North America and Northern Russia as well as the situation in Europe. He details the strategic forces and land-based tactical aircraft used by the air forces of the USA, USSR, NATO, Warsaw Pact countries and the European non-aligned nations. He also describes the aircraft types in the context of the units that operated them and the roles in which they were used. The text is supported by a wide range of first-hand accounts of operational flying during the Cold War, as well as numerous high-quality images.

Author : Martin Horseman,Denis J. Calvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081347580

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NATO Air Power Album by Martin Horseman,Denis J. Calvert Pdf