The Quest for Relevant Air Power

FOREWORD
by awareness of the quality, value, and proportional scale of recent
and current European air operations. Anyone who is detailed to
work alongside these air forces will benefit considerably from
under standing how and why they do what they do. He or she will
recognise the circumstances which have precluded them from the
doctrinal path of John Warden. Sadly, the author has only too
clearly identified the national features which, with one or two exceptions,
are likely to inhibit the creation of European air power in
the foreseeable future.
The author brings deep scholarship to his study, reinforced by
his national objectivity. It is a unique and indispensable contribution
to international awareness of twenty-first-century air power.
Air Vice-Marshal Tony Mason
Professor, R A Mason CB CBE MA DSc FRAeS DL
University of Birmingham, England
1 March 2011
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