The Objective of Air Warfare

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-86
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Surface Forces ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
The Will ◽  
Principles Of War

In this chapter three lectures are presented. Muir Fairchild, in “Air Power and Air Warfare,” emphasizes the need for an air force in being at the outset of war. In “Principles of War,” Donald Wilson argues that instead of seeking out immutable principles, the study of war should focus on linking the desired ends to the available means. The true objective of war is not the defeat of the enemy’s armed forces in battle but the overall defeat of the enemy nation such that it sues for peace on favorable terms. Air power is best suited for achieving this objective through massed offensive action. Haywood Hansell, in “The Aim in War,” reasons that war is the means for a nation to achieve its objectives by overcoming the will of the enemy nation’s population. The airplane, unlike surface forces, can directly strike the nation’s will without having to first defeat the enemy’s military forces.

The Dutch Uzi: Service Variants of the Army, Navy & Air Force, 1957–1997

2021 ◽  
Vol VII (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Mathieu Willemsen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Israel Defense Forces

The well-known Israeli Uzi sub-machine gun saw service with the Dutch Armed Forces between 1957 and 1997. Other than the Israel Defense Forces, the Netherlands were the first nation to adopt this weapon for their conventional military forces—and also the first to use the Uzi in combat. The Dutch Navy, Air Force, and Army all adopted the Israeli sub-machine gun, although each service selected a slightly different configuration, including variants with different stocks and modes of fire. This article presents a brief history of the Uzi in Dutch service, tracing the primary variants in service with all three branches of the armed forces and examining how this variety highlights a recurring small arms acquisition trend within the Dutch military.

scholarly journals PODER AEROESPACIAL E A ESTRATÉGIA NACIONAL DE DEFESA (END)

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (67) ◽  
pp. 83-97
Author(s):  
Ivan Muniz de Mesquita
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Defense Industry ◽  
Military Power ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Institutional Mission ◽  
Aerial Surveillance ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Defense Strategy ◽  
National Power

Este artigo tem por objetivo evidenciar os fundamentos do Poder Aeroespacial e identificar as principais atribuições da Força Aérea Brasileira estabelecidas na Estratégia Nacional de Defesa (END). O autor traz a lume aspectos doutrinários do Poder Aéreo, ou Poder Aeroespacial, bem como a sua importância como projeção do poder militar, uma das expressões do poder nacional, como preconizado na doutrina da Escola Superior de Guerra. A Estratégia Nacional de Defesa (END) é analisada em seus aspectos mais relevantes, destacando-se os seus três eixos estruturantes, que tratam, respectivamente, da: reorganização das Forças Armadas; da reorganização da indústria nacional de defesa e da composição dos efetivos das Forças Armadas. O autor evidencia as atribuições da Força Aérea Brasileira previstas no referido documento, que em síntese são as seguintes: prioridade da vigilância aérea; poder para assegurar a superioridade aérea local; capacidade para levar o combate a pontos específicos do território nacional; e domínio do potencial aeroestratégico. Assim, com vistas a dar cumprimento à sua missão institucional, o Comando da Aeronáutica elaborou o Plano Estratégico Militar da Aeronáutica (PEMAER), bem como o Projeto “Força Aérea 100”, o qual contém as diretrizes necessárias para orientar o futuro da Força Aérea Brasileira (FAB) nas próximas décadas.   This article aims to highlight the fundamentals of Aerospace Power and to identify the main attributions of the Brazilian Air Force established in the National Defense Strategy (NDS). The author brings to light doctrinal aspects of Air Power, or Aerospace Power, as well as its importance as a projection of military power, one of the expressions of national power, as prescribed in the doctrine of the Brazilian War College. The National Defense Strategy is analyzed in its most relevant aspects, highlighting its three structuring point facets, which deal respectively with: reorganization of the Armed Forces; the reorganization of the national defense industry; and the composition of the Armed Forces personnel. The author highlights the attributions of the Brazilian Air Force provided in the aforementioned document, which in summary are the following: priority of aerial surveillance; power to ensure local air superiority; ability to take combat to specific points in the national territory; and controlling of the strategic aviation potential. Thus, in order to fulfill its institutional mission, the Aeronautics Command elaborated the Aeronautical Military Strategic Plan (PEMAER- acronym in Portuguese), as well as the “Air Force 100” Project, which contains the necessary plans to guide the future of the Air Force (FAB) in the coming decades. Este artículo tiene por objetivo evidenciar los fundamentos del Poder Aeroespacial e identificar las principales atribuciones de la Fuerza Aérea Brasileña establecidas en la Estrategia Nacional de Defensa (END). El autor trae a la luz aspectos doctrinarios del Poder Aéreo, el Poder Aeroespacial, así como su importancia como proyección del poder militar, una de las expresiones del poder nacional, como preconizado en la doctrina de la Escuela Superior de Guerra. La Estrategia Nacional de Defensa (END) se analiza en sus aspectos más relevantes, destacándose sus tres ejes estructurantes, que tratan, respectivamente, de la: reorganización de las Fuerzas Armadas; de la Reorganización de la industria nacional de defensa y de la composición de los efectivos de las Fuerzas Armadas. El autor evidencia las atribuciones de la Fuerza Aérea Brasileña previstas en dicho documento, que en síntesis son las siguientes: prioridad de la vigilancia aérea; poder para asegurar la superioridad aérea local; capacidad para llevar el combate a puntos específicos del territorio nacional; dominio del potencial aeroespacial. El Comando de la Aeronáutica elaboró el Plan Estratégico Militar de la Aeronáutica (PEMAER), así como el Proyecto “Fuerza Aérea 100”, que contiene las directrices necesarias para orientar el futuro de la Fuerza Aérea Brasileña (FAB) en las próximas décadas.    

scholarly journals Airpower in Counterinsurgency: Analysis of the Nigerian Air Force’s Response to The Boko Haram Insurgency in the Northeast

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 302-310
Author(s):  
DR. JOHN ANYABE ADAMS ◽  
EFEFIONG ASUQUO EDET ◽  
MICHAEL R. ITAM
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Spare Parts ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Joint Task

This paper examined the role of airpower in counterinsurgency with particular focus on analyzing the Nigerian Air Force’s response to the Boko Haram insurgency in the north-east. The paper adopted the documentary method and sourced data from mainly secondary sources. The Nigeria Air Force ’s operations against the insurgent group commenced in 2010, as part of the armed forces operations within the purview of the Joint Task Force. It was found out that in spite of the significant contribution made by the Nigeria Air Force , there still are challenges to Nigeria Air Force ’s counterinsurgency efforts. Firstly, Nigeria Air Force faces logistical problems such as a dearth of spare parts, shortage of precision-guided ammunition, and inadequate trained personnel that can operate and maintain sophisticated war weapons. Secondly, there is a paucity of systems to initiate and maintain a systematic kill-chain that will encompass searching for the adversary, maintaining intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance presence over them, and subduing them and obtaining data for purposes of analysis. It was recommended, among others that for the Nigeria Air Force to be more effective in the northeast operations, there should be increased spending on purchasing more modern platforms and weaponry that are pliable in contemporary air power considerations.  

Maximum Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2020) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Margo Okazawa-Rey ◽  
Gwyn Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Air Force ◽  
International Security ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Latina Women ◽  
Physical Force ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Class Youth

Okazawa-Rey and Kirk argue that the term maximum security, used in the context of the prison system, is an oxymoron. Jails, prisons, and other ‘correctional’ facilities provide no real security for communities, guards and other prison officials, or inmates. Imprisoning two million people, building more prisons, identifying poor and working-class youth of colour as ‘gang members,’ and criminalizing poor Black and Latina women does not increase security. Rather, the idea of security must be redefined in sharp contrast to everyday notions of personal security that are based on the protection of material possessions by locks and physical force, as well as prevailing definitions of national and international security based on a militarization that includes the police, border patrols, and armed forces such as the Navy, Army, Marines, and Air Force. To achieve genuine security, we must address the major sources of insecurity: economic, social, and political inequalities among and within nations and communities. The continual objectification of ‘others’ is a central mechanism underlying systems of oppression—and insecurity—based on class, race, gender, nation, and other significant lines of difference.

The Germans and Air Power at Dieppe: The Raid and its Lessons from the ‘Other Side of the Hill’

2021 ◽  
pp. 096834452199586
Author(s):  
James Shelley
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Other ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Coastal Defence ◽  
German Armed Forces ◽  
Popular Interest ◽  
The Hill

Despite the vast academic and popular interest in the Dieppe raid of 19 August 1942, there remains a curious oversight of the German side of the story. This contribution interrogates German sources in order to explore the Dieppe air battle and its consequences from the perspective of the German armed forces. The paper ultimately demonstrates that the Germans learnt much about the role of air power in coastal defence from their experiences at Dieppe, but that the implementation of those lessons was lacking.

Technology, Group Interest, and Norwegian Air Power, 1920–1940

Vulcan ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-129
Author(s):  
Frode Lindgjerdet
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Naval Aviation ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Air War ◽  
Naval Warfare ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
Technology Group ◽  
Army Air Force

The Norwegian army and navy built their separate air arms around a few flimsy aircraft acquired from 1912. During the interwar period, the Army Air Force desired independence while its smaller naval counterpart fought tenaciously to remain part of the navy. The battle was carried out in the national military journals. Army aviation officers seduced by the air power theories of Giulio Douhet advocated independent operations; they maintained that challenges of air war and the skills required were independent of the surface over which it was fought. They also expected economic benefits from a unified service that could acquire fewer types of aircraft and unify technical services and education. Naval aviation officers maintained that naval air operations required knowledge of naval warfare, seamanship, tight naval integration, and specialized aircraft. What’s more, they resented the very idea that air power could win wars independently.

scholarly journals Experimental Exercises as an Element of Joint Combat Training of the Air Forces and Railway Troops in the Prewar Period and During the Great Patriotic War (1931-1945)

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
D.S. Lapay ◽  
S.S. Lantukhov
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Test Field ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Combat Training ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prewar Period ◽  
Equipment Testing

This article deals with the organization of experimental exercises of the Air Force and Railway Troops in the conditions of increasing military threat during the prewar period and the years of Great Patriotic War combat operations. The relevance of the study is due to the lack of scientific research on the history of interaction and joint combat training of aviation and special technical branches units. In the course of this research, the role and place of experimental exercises in the system of joint combat training of the Air Force and Railway Troops were defined, and the main areas of weapons and military equipment testing were analyzed. A conclusion was made about the fundamental role of the Gorokhovets Aviation and Railway Troops test field in the study of joint combat use and in the development of new models of air weapons and recovering equipment for Railway Troops. The effectiveness of using of the experience of such experimental exercises is positively assessed. Conclusions are formulated and scientific-theoretical recommendations are offered to improve joint combat training of Aviation and Railway Troops units at the present development level of the Russian Armed Forces.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-214
Author(s):  
António Tomás
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
Colonial Empire

Having lost the war politically, with the independence of Guinea and the recognition of Guinean state by dozens of countries, Estado Novo was entering into a crisis of legitimacy. Members of the Portuguese military forces formed the Movement of Armed Forces, who lead the popular uprising against Marcelo Caetano on April 1974. The end of Estado Novo was not an automatic confirmation of the end of colonialism. But independence was inevitable. By the end of 1975, Portugal was no longer a colonial empire in Africa. Against Cabral’s desire, independence did bring the unity between Cope Verdeans and Guineans. Whereas Cape Verde was governed by an all- Cape Verdean government, Guinea had a few Cape Verdean in its government. The coup d’etat led by Nino Vieira against Cabral’s bother Luís Cabral has been considered the second death of Cabral.

4. The Second World War

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Frank Ledwidge
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Us Army ◽  
The Us ◽  
Political Effect ◽  
Second World

‘The Second World War: air operations in the West’ considers the air capabilities of the main actors of the Second World War including the Polish air force, the German Luftwaffe, the Soviet air force, Britain’s Royal Air Force, and the US Army Air Corps. It discusses the strategies employed by the different forces during the various stages of the war, including securing the control of the air during the Battle of Britain in 1940, which demonstrated that a defensive air campaign could have strategic and political effect. The improving technology throughout the war is discussed along with role of air power at sea, and the results and controversy of the bombing war in Europe.

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