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

Participants Reflect on the Air Campaigns over Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq

Stephen D. Wrage, ed. Stephen D. Wrage, ed.

October 2003

Praeger

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These essays offer the most penetrating look to date at the realities of American precision air power.

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
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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