Air power

Between 1946 and 1964, members of the United States Air Force developed an expeditionary airpower strategy. The intellectual and organizational development of this strategy came from a need to meet an increasing array of threats in developing regions around the world. This strat…

During the interwar period, civil-military relations between Army aviation leaders and civilian officials developed unevenly from confrontation to cooperation. In the early 1920s, rebellious airmen became entangled in politics as they tried to force the creation of an independen…

In order of priority, this dissertation is first about coercion, second air power, and third bombing strategies. The thesis derives a new school of coercion, neo-Clausewitzian compellence, to compete with the traditional coercive diplomacy approach, and a new strategy, regime pu…