The Quest for Relevant Air Power

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1,000 aircraft in the final stages—including American long-range
bombers—is still beyond Europe’s capability alone despite technological
advances and requires significant American involvement. 15
Nevertheless, in an environment of decreasing American air assets,
European contributions to deployed operations might become
more relevant—not only from a political point of view but
also from an operational one. Continental European air forces
remain natural allies for their Anglo-Saxon counterparts, and
under standing their different approaches is indispensable for
combined Western air operations.
Notes
1. Mathieu, La Défense nationale, 54; and Portz, “The Future of Air Power,” 14.
2. JAPCC, NATO Flightplan for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, “Annex B:
NATO Unmanned Aircraft Systems—Operational,” accessed 4 August 2008,
http://www.japcc.de/nato_flightplan_uas.html.
3. Gething and Sweetman, “Air-to-Air Refuelling,” 45; and International Institute
for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 1995–96 (Oxford, England:
Oxford University Press for the IISS, 1995), 66.
4. See, for instance, Dörfer, Arms Deal, 108.
5. Freedman, “Can the EU Develop an Effective Military Doctrine?” in
Everts et al., European Way of War, 23.
6. Gnesotto et al., European Defence, 49.
7. Lt Col Christophe Taesch, FAF, “Air Power and Rapid Reaction Interventions
in Africa” (address, “Europe, NATO, and Air Power,” conference, Allied
Air Component Command Headquarters, Ramstein, Germany, 7 October 2008).
8. Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 217; and Steven R. Bowman, Bosnia:
U.S. Military Operations (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service,
updated 8 July 2003), 1.
9. Royal Netherlands Air Force Air Power Doctrine.
10. Phillip S. Meilinger, 10 Propositions regarding Air Power (Washington,
D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1995), 61.
11. Mason, Air Power, 249.
12. Lorell, Future of Allied Tactical Fighter Forces, xi.
13. Garden, “European Air Power,” in Gray, Air Power 21, 114.
14. Martin van Creveld, Steven L. Canby, and Kenneth S. Brower, Air Power
and Maneuver Warfare (Honolulu, HI: University Press of the Pacific, 2002), xiv.
15. See Lambeth, NATO’s Air War for Kosovo, 35.