Coercion--the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior--is a critical function of the U.S. military. U.S. forces have recently foug

As part of this larger study, members of the research team explored the role of air power as a coercive instrument. In recent years, decision makers have called

From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provid

The United States has vital interests to defend in many foreign countries. The strategist must understand the relationship between counterrevolutionary strategy

This collection of essays reflects the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "The United States Air Force: Aerospace Challenges and Missions in the 1990s," sponso