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14CHAPTER 14AIRPOWER ASSTRATEGIC LABORATORYThis chapter highlights the unique strategic nature of American airpower, tracing its evolutionover the last century and examining the changing role it plays in national security.Airpower is a broad concept, as described by Billy Mitchell when he wrote “Air power isthe ability to do something in or through the air,” and encompasses not only military powerbut civil and industrial might.INTRODUCTIONThe readings presented here concentrate on the AirForce definition of airpower as “the ability to project militarypower or influence through the control and exploitationof air, space, and cyberspace.” The historicaldevelopment of airpower provides a useful case study instrategic leadership by analyzing how the US Air Forcesuccessfully evolved over time as a result of visionarystrategic leadership.General Carl Spaatz was a brilliant combat leaderwho played a central role in the establishment of the USAir Force as an independent Service, separate and equalto the Army and Navy. His treatise “Strategic Air Power:Fulfillment of a Concept” sets the stage by validating theimportance of a well-thought-out strategy in achievingone’s objectives. In presenting his argument, GeneralSpaatz asserts that Germany lost World War II due inpart to its misuse of airpower and he warns of the importanceof maintaining a strong and prepared Air Force inpeacetime.The second article, “Warden and the Air Corps TacticalSchool: What Goes Around Comes Around,” presentstwo striking examples of airpower theorists relying upontheir unique strategic perspectives to conceptualize thebattlespace and apply a systems approach to strategy.This article builds on the systems thinking article youread in chapter 12. Through contrast and comparison theauthor identifies similarities, strengths, and shortcomingsof the Air Corps Tactical School’s ideas promotedthroughout the 1930s and those of Colonel John Warden’sFive-Ring Theory published in the late 1980s.Having surveyed the history of the US Air Force as an independentservice in the first two articles, we will nextturn our attention to how airpower is being redefinedtoday. In “Cyberspace: The New Air and Space?” the authorexplores the cyber domain and the important role informationtechnology plays in national security. Today’sairpower advocates view cyberspace as a natural complementto the traditional airpower mediums of air andspace used to project military power.Our fourth reading comes directly from Air Forcedoctrine, and in it one can trace the influences of thetransformational airpower leaders of the past, great captainslike Hap Arnold, Jimmy Doolittle, and Tooey Spaatz,as well as less familiar visionaries such as George Kenney,William Tunner, and Alexander de Seversky. The selectedexcerpts from AFDD 1 summarize how the US Air Forcerole has expanded over time to incorporate twelve corefunctions that embody what the world’s most powerfulmilitary force manifests across the range of military operations.80
VOLUME FOUR STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVESCHAPTER OUTLINEThis chapter’s readings are:Strategic Air Power:Fulfillment of a ConceptGen Carl Spaatz, “Strategic Air Power: Fulfillment of aConcept,” Foreign Affairs 24 (1945/1946): 385-396.Warden & The Air Corps Tactical School:What Goes Around Comes AroundMaj Howard D. Belote, “Warden and the Air Corps TacticalSchool: What Goes Around Comes Around,” AirpowerJournal (Fall 1999): 39-47.The final reading raises a challenging issue for currentand future air-minded leaders. For decades the UShas relied upon a nuclear triad of land-based intercontinentalballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launchedballistic missiles (SLBMs), and bomber aircraft to providedeterrence for our nation and its allies. Some have calledupon the US to divest itself of these expensive and complexweapon systems on a path toward nuclear disarmament.In his article “Should the United States Maintainthe Nuclear Triad?” Dr. Adam Lowther examines this debateand its strategic implications.Cyberspace: The New Air & Space?Lt Col David A. Umphress, “Cyberspace: The New Airand Space?,” Air & Space Power Journal (Spring 2007):50-55.Air Force Basic DoctrineUS Air Force, AFDD-1, Air Force Basic Doctrine, (MaxwellAFB, AL: Air University, October 2011).Should the US Maintain theNuclear Triad?Dr. Adam B. Lowther, “Should the United States Maintainthe Nuclear Triad?,” Air & Space Power Journal (Summer2010): 23-29.CHAPTER GOALS1. Summarize the evolution of Americanairpower over the last century.2. Appreciate the role of information,space, and cyberspace in modernairpower theory.3. Develop an understanding of the AirForce’s core functions.81
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