Airpower is viewed in the literature on the topic as the capability of the Air Force to protect the interests of the United States by controlling air and space as strategic spaces. According to Benitez, “airpower should be thought of as the output of the cumulative input from all domains of warfare: land, sea, air, space, and cyber (and potentially soon the electromagnetic spectrum)” (par. 10). In this context, it is important to note that the use of airpower is based on following certain tenets that determine specific aspects of the relationship between air power as a component of national military force and other instruments of political power. This application of the tenets of airpower has an impact on Airmen and affects their practices and activities. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of the relationship between the concept of airpower and its tenets and the instruments of power, and then explain two specific implications of this relationship for the practices of Airmen. The tenets of airpower can be considered guiding principles of the military activities of the US Air Force. They include centralized control and decentralized execution, persistence, priority, flexibility and versatility, balance, concentration, and synergistic effects. Centralized control and decentralized execution are the key principles followed by the military to achieve strategic goals and to effectively monitor the situation from a distance (Curtis E. LeMay Center 67). Operations can be continuous and persistent to reach tactical goals, and the activities of Airmen should be effectively prioritized. Airpower should also be flexible and versatile in order to adapt to changes, alter tactics, and control parallel operations. Balancing the use of airpower leads to more effective concentration and significant synergistic effects while applying coordinated power from different resources (Curtis E. LeMay Center 69). The combination of these tenets forms the framework in which airpower is realized as the complex ability of military forces to exploit and control the air and space for required operations in accordance with strategic and tactical goals. It is also important to discuss the concept of the instruments of power before focusing on the relationship between the tenets of airpower and these specific political and military tools or activities. According to Worley, the instruments of power include “military, informational, diplomatic, law enforcement, intelligence, financial, and economic” ones that reflect “the greater complexity in the ways and means of pursuing national security in the twenty-first century” (275). All these means are oriented to protecting national security with the help of joint operations and the use of informational, diplomatic, economic, or military resources (Troxell 224). As a result, they work to sustain the state’s power in the context of international politics. From this perspective, it is important to analyze how the particular tenets of airpower can be related to the concept and use of the instruments of power. On the one hand, airpower is one of the military instruments for projecting force along with sea- and land-based military units among other forces that together realize their capabil