Air Power: Old Challenges, New Opportunities

From: RUSI Journal | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

The broad theme of this article is the generation and development of air power to deliver effect across the full spectrum of military operations. Not just large-scale warfighting, but all of the very wide range of activities that involves the use of military power. A particularly timely issue, one might say; but is it a new one? The answer, of course, is absolutely not.

Historical Context

As long ago as December 1919, Winston Churchill said: 'The first duty of the RAF is to garrison the British Empire'. The very next year Z Force, a squadron of twelve de Havilland DH9s, were in operation with ...

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