Air power, insurgency and the "War on Terror"
By: edited by Joel Hayward
Publisher: Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cranwell, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780955218965
Subjects: Counterinsurgency; Military aircraft; Tactical aircraft; Strategy; Aerial Bombing; Aerial warfare; Tactical bombing; Close air support; Strategy and Tactics Military Operations; Evaluation; Air power; History
Notes: Includes author biographies (p. 5 - 8).

"Credit for logo art : Robert Savannah, US FWS".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255 - 308).
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Air Power and Insurgency : Some Preliminary Thoughts -- Joel Hayward; title: Chapter 1. The Air Power Profession : Adaptations to Continuity and Change in the Strategic Environment -- Matthew R H Uttley; title: Chapter 2. Air Power and Insurgency : Early RAF Doctrine -- Neville Parton; title: Chapter 3. Royal Air Force Operations in South-West Arabia 1917-1967 -- Peter Dye; title: Chapter 4. Unnecessary or Unsung? The Strategic Role of Air Power in Britain's Colonial Counter-Insurgencies -- Andrew Mumford and Caroline Kennedy-Pipe; title: Chapter 5. "Looks Suspicious" : The US Marines' Air Campaign against the Sandino Insurgents of Nicaragua 1927-1933 -- Richard Grossman; title: Chapter 6. The RAF in Counter-Insurgency Warfare : British Intervention in Greece, 1944-45 -- Christina J M Goulter; title: Chapter 7. Techniques and Gadgets, Hearts and Minds : An analysis of Operation Ranch Hand -- Evelyn Krache Morris; title: Chapter 8. Night of the Flying Hooligans : Soviet Army Aviation and Air Force Operations during the War in Afghanistan 1979-1989 -- Thomas Withington; title: Chapter 9. Air Power's Role in Assymetric Operations : The Case of the Second Lebanon War -- Sarah E Kreps; title: Chapter 10. Air Power and Ethics in the Age of the Global Salafi Jihad -- A M Ashraf; title: Chapter 11. Starting with a Blank Sheet : Principles of War for a New Century -- Phillip S Meilinger; title: Air Power and Counter-insurgency : Back to the Basics -- James S Corum; title: Chapter 13. The Use of Air Power Today : Have New Ethical Challenges Occurred? -- Steinar Sanderod; title: Chapter 14. Neglected Contributors : The Continental European Air Powers-- Christian F Anrig.