Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars
«"Robert Gregory Jr. has produced a salutary, carefully researched study reminding us that war is not only a process, but a momentous and unpredictable effort to accomplish specific policy goals."
Michigan Review
"Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars is a well-written and necessary look at what airto-ground capabilities bring to the joint fight, and testifies to synergistic effects the aforementioned improvisation brought to OAF."
-Journal of Military History»
On March 24th, 1999, President Clinton announced that the United States, along with NATO allies, had initiated air strikes against the Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo. After seventy-eight days of bombing, Milosevic agreed to withdraw his army from Kosovo. Les mer
Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars: Employing Air Power over Kosovo and Libya offers a fresh perspective on the role, relevance, and effectiveness of air power in contemporary warfare, including an exploration of the political motivations for its use as well as a candid examination of air-to-ground targeting processes. Using recently declassified archival materials from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library along with primary evidence culled from social media posted during the Arab Spring, author Robert Gregory shows that the extreme argument that air power "does it alone" and eliminates the necessity for boots on the ground is an artificial claim and that the popular perception forged in Kosovo and carried forth in Libyan operations--that air power succeeded without the need for a ground contingent--is illusory.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Potomac Books Inc
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781612347318
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«"Robert Gregory Jr. has produced a salutary, carefully researched study reminding us that war is not only a process, but a momentous and unpredictable effort to accomplish specific policy goals."
Michigan Review
"Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars is a well-written and necessary look at what airto-ground capabilities bring to the joint fight, and testifies to synergistic effects the aforementioned improvisation brought to OAF."
-Journal of Military History»