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Immaculate Warfare Stephen D. Wrage

Immaculate Warfare By Stephen D. Wrage

Immaculate Warfare by Stephen D. Wrage


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Those who penned the five papers presented by Wrage (political science, U.S. Naval Academy) were all involved in conducting the air warfare in American wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq and are understandably more likely to support the notion of air warfare as immaculate than those attempting

Immaculate Warfare Summary

Immaculate Warfare: Participants Reflect on the Air Campaigns over Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq by Stephen D. Wrage

This volume of essays-written by military officers who analyzed the intelligence, planned the missions, and flew the planes over Iraq, Kosovo, and Afghanistan-offers the most penetrating look to date at the realities of American precision air power.

When the gun-camera footage from air strikes during the Gulf War reached America's television screens, people awoke to the astonishing accuracy and power of smart weapons. Yet ten years' experience has taught what these remarkable weapons can and cannot do, and now, as American policy makers look to them to win the global war on terrorism, it is essential to understand the promise and the limits of immaculate warfare. This volume of essays-written by military officers who analyzed the intelligence, planned the missions, and flew the planes over Iraq, Kosovo, and Afghanistan-offers the most penetrating look to date at the realities of American precision air power.

Topics include:

* The political context of using force from the air

* The theoretical considerations involved in the use of air power to coerce an enemy

* An insider's view from General Clark's headquarters as he commanded the Kosovo war effort

* The tensions between civilian and military leaderships during the Kosovo war

* Precision weapons and the paradoxes their use involves

* The debate surrounding when precision weapons ought to be employed

About Stephen D. Wrage

STEPHEN D. WRAGE is Associate Professor of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy. Dr. Wrage writes and teaches about the formulation of U.S. foreign policy and on issues of ethics in international affairs.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Promise of Immaculate Warfare by Stephen D. Wrage Air Power and the Coercive Use of Force by Scott A. Cooper Airpower Strategy and the Problem of Coercion by Spencer Abbot Coalition Warfare: The Commander's Role by Derek Reveron The Politics of Air Strikes by Scott A. Cooper The Ethics of Precision Air Power by Stephen D. Wrage Conclusion: Prospects for Precision Air Power by Stephen D. Wrage

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NPB9780275976439
9780275976439
0275976432
Immaculate Warfare: Participants Reflect on the Air Campaigns over Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq by Stephen D. Wrage
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2003-10-30
128
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