Since the end of the Cold War the United States and other major powers have wielded their air forces against much weaker state and non-state actors. In this age

Analyzes the effectiveness of post-Cold War air wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against terrorist groups.

From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provid

A theory of tactical air power explaining US air power effectiveness in Vietnam and the modern air wars that followed.

At the end of the Reagan era, many in the U.S. Air Force began to express their concerns about the health of their institution. They questioned whether the Air