NATO's experts work out their contingency plans (no-fly zones, electronic warfare, air strikes against airfields, communications and air-defence systems), their political masters face an equally tricky set of problems.
The modern air wing can provide credible combat capacity with 80-125 air dominance, strike, electronic warfare, and surveillance combat missions each day.
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Nor, as some are claiming, has the bombing opened a new chapter in the history of warfare by showing that air power alone can produce victory.
Hurlock is an Air Force employee working at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren.
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Cyberspace has become the fifth domain of warfare, after land, sea, air and space (see article).
Some strategists were saying that a new era in warfare had arrived, one in which air forces would dominate.
But with the exception of South Korea, which chafes under our protection and may eventually break from the fold, our major allies in the Pacific are islands, and conveniently in this regard our strengths are the air, the sea, space, and amphibious warfare.
In these areas, sophisticated adversaries will use asymmetric capabilities, to include electronic and cyber warfare, ballistic and cruise missiles, advanced air defenses, mining, and other methods, to complicate our operational calculus.
After land, sea, air and space, cyberspace is now the fifth dimension of warfare.
Additionally, an unspecified number of aircraft, designed for anti-submarine warfare, will be stationed temporarily at a Venezuelan air base.
Given the reluctance of western governments to face the messiness of ground warfare in mountainous terrain, military aid to Montenegro would presumably take the form of air support.
They represent a unique warfare capability that can quickly arrive at a trouble spot and provide robust, and sustainable combat air power.
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