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Battle in the skies.(NATIONAL SECURITY)(Brief Article)
Thomas Donnelly, "Strategy and Air Power," AEI National Security Outlook, March 2005 (ad.org)
As recently as September 10, 2001, air power was assumed to be the future for the American military. Commentators and military analysts alike pointed to the success of air power in the Gulf War and Kosovo in "paralyzing the modern state by taking out its central nervous system." As AEI scholar Thomas Donnelly points out, "It was the perfect 'end-of-history' military theory to accompany the broader 'end-of-history' ethos that captured the minds of foreign policy intellectuals in the wake of the Soviet collapse."
The war on terror, however, has severely challenged that perception. Al-Qaeda and its allies, for instance, often lack a "central nervous system" to paralyze. The war on terror "cannot help but prioritize American land forces," leading to "a relative diminution of influence for the other services." This change in priorities is reflected in the proposed defense budget for 2006, which aims cuts specifically at ...
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