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<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong>, <strong>Insurgency</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> “War on Terror”
449. For an excellent overview of US Army doctrine after <strong>the</strong> Vietnam War that
featured a wholesale turn away from COIN <strong>and</strong> towards major conventional
operations in Europe, see Harold R Winton, “An Ambivalent Partnership: US Army
<strong>and</strong> <strong>Air</strong> Force Perspectives on <strong>Air</strong>-Ground Operations, 1973-90,” Phillip S
Meilinger, ed., The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of <strong>Air</strong>power Theory (Maxwell AFB:
<strong>Air</strong> University, 1997).
450. For an excellent discussion of how this paradigm succeeded in Afghanistan,
see Richard B Andres, Craig Wills <strong>and</strong> Thomas E Griffith, Jr, “Winning With Allies:
The Strategic Value of <strong>the</strong> Afghan Model,” International Security, Vol. 30, Winter
2005/2006, pp. 124-60. For how air power plus SOF plus indigenous Kurdish
forces overcame twelve Iraqi divisions in nor<strong>the</strong>rn Iraq, see Richard Andres, “The
Afghan Model in Nor<strong>the</strong>rn Iraq,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 29, June 2006,
pp. 395-422.
451. The first American combat death in Afghanistan did not occur until 4 January
2002. The fall of Kabul had occurred <strong>the</strong> previous November. Robin Moore,
The Hunt for bin Laden (NY: R<strong>and</strong>om House, 2003), p. 294; Rebecca Grant, “The
Echoes of Anaconda,” <strong>Air</strong> Force Magazine, April 2005:
http://www.afa.org/magazine/april2005/0405anaconda.asp.
452. There are some voices of reason on this issue, but far too few. See “Analysts
Question Need for Boost in Combat Troops,” Boston Globe, 5 March 2007, p. 1.
453. Diamond, p. 51.
454. “Four Years Later, Iraqis Split on Occupation,” Chicago Tribune, 20 March 2007, p. 7.
455. Robert D. Heinl, Jr, Dictionary of Military <strong>and</strong> Naval Quotations (Annapolis: Naval
Institute, 1966), p. 29.
456. Thomas R Phillips, ed., The Roots of Strategy (Harrisburg: Military Service
Publishing, 1940), p. 22.
457. The definitive work on <strong>the</strong> history of principles of war, <strong>and</strong> on which this section
draws heavily, is John I Alger, The Quest for Victory (Westport: Greenwood, 1982).
458. On War, Howard <strong>and</strong> Peter Paret ed., p. 258.
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