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<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong>, <strong>Insurgency</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> “War on Terror”
473. US <strong>Air</strong> Force, <strong>Air</strong> Force Doctrine Document 1, “<strong>Air</strong> Force Basic Doctrine,” 17
November 2003, pp. 19-26. For <strong>the</strong> evolution of USAF basic doctrine, see
appendix 1 of <strong>the</strong> 1984 AFM 1-1.
474. This is a factoid much quoted by USAF leaders, although purists would argue that
<strong>the</strong> US Army did not quite have air superiority in New Guinea in early 1944.
475. The continuing problems of IEDs – improvised explosive devices – in Iraq has led
to an increased used of airlift so as to avoid <strong>the</strong> truck columns that are favourite
targets of terrorists.
476. Amy Butler, “Holistic Approach: USAF Crafts Plans to Operate its Own Cyberspace
Comm<strong>and</strong>,” Aviation Week & Space Technology, 22 January 2007, p. 46. Eighth <strong>Air</strong>
Force, headquartered at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, has assumed
<strong>the</strong>se responsibilities.
477. Steven T Ross, European Diplomatic History, 1789-1815: France against Europe
(Malabar, FL: Krieger, 1981), chapter 11; Christopher D Hall, British Strategy in <strong>the</strong>
Napoleonic War, 1803-15 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992), passim.
478. See <strong>the</strong> 2006 QDR report online at: http://www.defenselink.mil/qdr/report/
Report20060203.pdf.
479. Norman H Schwarzkopf, It Doesn’t Take a Hero (New York: Bantam, 1992), p. 479.
Horner related this anecdote to me when he visited <strong>the</strong> School of Advanced
<strong>Air</strong>power Studies in 1993.
480. This is articulated in a classic work that still makes valuable reading today for any
military officer: Basil H Liddell Hart, The Way to Win Wars: The Strategy of Indirect
Approach (London: Faber & Faber, 1929).
481. Heinl, p. 17.
482. I owe this idea to <strong>the</strong> insightful Australian air <strong>the</strong>orist <strong>and</strong> historian, Alan Stephens.
483. For <strong>the</strong> definitive account of this legislation’s history, see James R Locher III, Victory
on <strong>the</strong> Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies <strong>the</strong> Pentagon (College Station:
Texas A & M University Press, 2004).
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