Air Power

Airpower or air power consists of the application of military aviation, military strategy and strategic theory to the realm of aerial warfare and close air support. Airpower began in the advent of powered flight early in the 20th century. Airpower represents a "complex operating environment that has been subjected to considerable debate". British doctrine defines airpower as "the ability to project power from the air and space to influence the behaviour of people or the course of events." The Australian Experience of Air Power defines Airpower as being composed of Control of the Air, Strike, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and …

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The National Archives · 1 January 1981 English

devotes a great deal of his time to lecturing on air power. He is proposing to visit Moscow m a private


The National Archives · 1 January 1979 English

inconceivable that the Vietnamese could have used air power in support of ground forces for the first time


The National Archives · 1 January 1979 English

fields of conservation and research into wave and air power techniques could be of considerable relevance


The National Archives · 1 January 1977 German

A file containing documents concerning a visit to London by the mayor of West Berlin, Dietrich Stobbe, in November 1977. Subjects covered in the file include the fact that Stobbe …

is sometimes forgotten. FOR 15 MONTHS allied air power in an amazing feat of logistics kept a beleaguered


The National Archives · 1 January 1976 English

THE INCREASED I RANGE AND PAYLOAD OF THEIR AIR POWER HAS PROVIDED THEM WITH A DEEP I PENETRATION


The National Archives · 1 January 1976 French

A file of correspondence and reports concerning freedom of travel in Berlin. The documents include a discussion paper on the rights of Allied personnel and vehicles to travel freely across …

through e,í ¡ Í T ^ v i n « hancing British air power and í r U ^ ^ T 5 , o f - reinforcement capabilities


The National Archives · 1973 English

A file containing documents relating to the detention of two British nationals, Paul Mason and Robert Curtis, in Yugoslavia in October 1973. Subjects covered in the file include the arrest …

. j Y i ^ s l a v i V s S i n H ^ t a r v air power. one of the wavebands on the • • / ^ ^


The National Archives · 1972 English

A file of correspondence and reports concerning Soviet proposals for naval limitations. The documents consider a recent pronouncement by the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, suggesting the introduction of naval limitations; …

incomplete without a mention of shore-based ag air-power. For practical purposes, however, as in the case


The National Archives · 1972 English

account is taken of the fact I that mobile units, air power, missile forces and I navies now constitute


The National Archives · 1972 English

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the annual defence report for Romania for 1971. The report describes a year marked by an espionage affair involving General Ion Șerb, and …

limitation on any independent use of Romanian air power, and m any J ^ engagement the absence of local


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