Is air power an adjunct? Armies and navies will see air power as an adjunct, history being the reason. Analysing the experience of the United States, the greatest exponent of air power in history, the air power theorist Tami Davis Biddle wrote in 2019 that ‘aerial bombing cannot control the ground. From Vietnam to Afghanistan, air power failed to deliver the promised results to the U.S. Finding common groundA common understanding of the nuances of military air power is the key.

Source: The Hindu July 25, 2021 18:33 UTC