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THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AIR POWER Revie
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Foreword from CAS Air Chief Marshal
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taken into account in its formulati
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Sir Frederick Tymms Memorial Lectur
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2 I also do welcome this public opp
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4 Control of the air is achieved by
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6 sense of identity and looking aft
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8 …it was the coalition air force
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10 7 NATO air attack packages a day
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12 I should also point out that the
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14 The real issue, then, is not wha
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Air Operations for Strategic Effect
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18 It would be neither practical no
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20 leadership of a foe could lead t
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22 Bosnian Serb paramilitary units
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24 DELIBERATE FORCE started in the
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26 Milosevic may have doubted the w
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28 Peace talks started to produce r
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30 The full range of strategic targ
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DOCTRINE NOT DOGMA: Lessons from th
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34 …the RAF established in 1918 a
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36 In the summer of 1941 Trenchard
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38 and his cattle. 8 The lesson to
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40 force would pursue and destroy t
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42 The new generation of German wea
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44 This example illustrates the imp
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46 5. The ‘eccentricity factor’
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THE FUTURE OF AIR POWER Observation
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50 Nonetheless, there is a distress
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52 Events in Kosovo were similarly
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54 ● It is imperative that future
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56 and residential areas, were imme
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58 successful. 11 Spending money on
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60 Precision weapons, especially st
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62 Air and space platforms like JST
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64 In contrast to the unhappy exper
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66 objectives do not need such comm
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68 9 The unseemly spat between the
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THE FUTURE OF AIRPOWER?
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72 …powerful though it is, a US v
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74 theoretical possibilities which
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76 …whilst redundancy is a positi
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78 …superior technology is not al
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80 committing ground forces into a
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TO SEA OR NOT TO SEA: That is the Q
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84 INTRODUCTION In recognition of t
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and its carrier are not inconsidera
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88 …Harrier FA2s could be used to
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90 to bring the aircraft’s weight
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92 …one of the most feared modern
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