%0 Book %1 noauthororeditor %C London %D 2009 %E Hayward, Joel %I Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies %K Afghanistan Iraq air airpower aviation combat counterinsugency hayward insurgency joel military myown power terror terrorism warfare %T Air Power, Insurgency and the “War on Terror” %X The various chapter authors and I therefore hope that our collection of essays will make a useful contribution to the re-balancing of analysis that is needed before a more complete picture of today’s major counter-insurgency efforts can emerge. With chapters covering counter-insurgency campaigns going back almost to the First World War and with the case studies including several little-known operations, careful readers may notice the existence of some fairly constant patterns of cause and effect and observe that certain air power activities have tended always to produce the same sorts of results. They may also notice that insurgencies have always presented air forces with the challenges that I outlined above. Some air forces have fared better than others at overcoming those challenges and some have made catastrophic mistakes – such as defoliating vast tracts of Vietnam to deny insurgents sustenance and the protection of jungle canopies – that will surely never be repeated. Most have learned some common lessons, such as the importance of exercising forethought on the potential negative impacts of any planned operations on the morale and empathy of the civilian population amidst which the insurgents operate. The growing importance of civilian immunity in the western understanding of war nowadays makes this lesson especially important. The chapters that offer recommendations on how air forces can best contribute to current and likely future counter-insurgency operations – Introduction Air Power, Insurgency and the “War on Terror” 19 Corum’s and Meilinger’s chapters in particular – are highly thoughtful and insightful and nicely round off the broadly chronological unfolding of ideas shared by the other authors. %7 First %@ 978-0-9552189-6-5

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