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Air Power, Insurgency and the "War on Terror"

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Air Power, Insurgency and the "War on Terror"
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AuthorJoel Hayward
LanguageEnglish
Subjectwarfare, strategy; military history, airpower
PublisherRoyal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies
Publication date
2009
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typeSoftcover
Pages315
ISBN978-0-9552189-6-5

Air Power, Insurgency and the "War on Terror" is a 2009 non-fiction book on airpower (military aviation) edited by British-New Zealand scholar Joel Hayward.[1][2][3]

Summary

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Hayward has assembled a team of authoritative analysts on the use of airpower during the so-called War on terror, meaning the counterinsurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq in the 2000s. The book goes further by analyzing the development of the ideas and practices of using air power in counterinsurgency and other asymmetrical roles.

Reviews

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A review by Michael Robert Terry in The Journal of Military History stated: "Joel Hayward's edited work, Air Power, Insurgency and the "War on Terror", successfully presents the foundations of air power's historical, contemporary, and moral relationships to irregular warfare. ... [It] provides thought provoking reading, while the collection of papers provides much needed critical thinking about the relationship of air power to meet the challenges of conducting counter-insurgent operations within the context of irregular warfare and terrorism."[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Joel Hayward Orcid 0000-0002-8015-3458". Orcid.
  2. ^ Hayward, Joel S. A. (2009). Airpower, Insurgency and the "War on Terror". Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies. ISBN 9780955218965. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Airpower, Insurgency and the "War on Terror"". WorldCat. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  4. ^ Terry, Michael Robert (July 2010), The Journal of Military History, Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 988-990.