Routledge Handbook of Air Power

ISBN-13: 9781138632608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 406 str.

John A. Olsen

Opis

The Routledge Handbook of Air Power offers a comprehensive overview of the political purposes and military importance of air power, and features essays by leading experts in the field. Despite its increasing significance in international relations, statecraft proper and war, the phenomenon of air power remains controversial and little understood beyond its tactical-technological prominence. Air power represents a multi-disciplinary field that demands study in breadth, in depth and in context. This Handbook examines a series of themes and factors that contribute to such an understanding of the utility and applicability of air power. It focuses on the essence of air power, identifies its roles and functions and places air power in its wider strategic and national contexts. The book comprises five parts. The first deals with the forming factors, development and key components of air power. The second and third parts focus on delivering and applying air power. The fourth part offers further thematic perspectives and the final part examines the status and prospects of air power in a selection of non-Western countries. While the book offers the reader a rounded understanding of air power, it has also a pointed operational flavour that includes specifics necessary to comprehend the "whole house of air power." This handbook will be of much interest to students of air power, strategic studies, defence studies, security studies and IR, as well as professionals.

Spis treści

Foreword, David A. Deptula Introduction: The New Face of War, John Andreas Olsen  Part I: Foundation: Essence of Air Power 1. Air Power Anatomy, Benjamin S. Lambeth 2. Air Power and High Command, Alan Stephens 3. Air Power Theory, Phillip S. Meilinger 4. Science, Technology and Air Warfare, Richard P. Hallion 5 Air Power, International Law and Ethics, Jeffrey Biller 6. Air Power History, Peter W. Gray  Part II: Roles and Functions: Delivering Air Power 7. Control of the Air, Dag Henriksen 8. Air Strike, Frans Osinga 9. Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Gjert Lage Dyndal 10. Air Mobility, Robert C. Owen 11. Command and Control, Christopher McInnes 12. Air Power Logistics, Richard Knighton  Part III: Cross-Domain Integration: Applying Air Power 13. Air–Land Integration, Harvey Smyth 14. Air–Sea Integration, Travis Hallen 15. Air–Special Operation Integration, James D. Kiras 16. Air–Space Integration, Everett Dolman 17. Air Power and Cyber, Richard Andres 18. Air Power in Interagency Operations, James S. Corum  Part IV: Political–Social–Economic Environment: Air Power in its Strategic Context 19. Combat Air Power and Political Effect, Michael Clarke 20. Air Power, Media and Popular Culture, Philip Sabin 21. Deterrence and Coercive Diplomacy, Karl P. Muller 22. Air Power in Multinational Operations, Christian F. Anrig 23. Costs of Combat Air Power, Trevor Taylor 24. Air Power and Industry, Keith Hayward  Part V: Case Studies: Air Power in its National Context 25. China Air Power, Xiaoming Zhang 26. Russian Air Power, Igor Sutyagin 27. Indian Air Power, Sanu Kainikara 28. Pakistani Air Power, Jamal Hussein 29. Brazilian Air Power, Carlos Eduardo Valle Rosa 30. Japanese Air Power, Tomoyuki Ishizu Conclusion: The Focus on Human Trauma, John Andreas Olsen Afterword, Stephen Hillier

O autorze

John Andreas Olsen is a Colonel in the Royal Norwegian Air Force. He is Visiting Professor at the Swedish Defence University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. His latest publications include Airpower Reborn (2015) and Airpower Applied (2017).