The aim of this article is to formulate the rudiments of the concepts relating to aerospace power. After proposing some definitions and stating its fundamental characteristics, it highlights the value of aerospace power for our day-to-day security, for military operations at the strategic and tactical levels, and as a tool for coercion or influence available to the highest authorities.
Aerospace Power: What is it For?
Faced with new forms of violence, where the adversary rarely uses the same rulebook on war as us, aerospace power, which may assume a wide range of forms, is a valuable, even indispensable advantage for those who know how to use it effectively.
It is fundamental to describe it properly and to explain how to use it. This is the issue in writing conceptual and doctrinal documents, which must answer the questions ‘what to do?’ and ‘how to do it?’.
The many attempts to write a concept for the employment of the Air Force, the air weapon or air power have not yet been crowned with success. By success, we mean here official acceptance by the leaders of the Air Force. A new formulation, this time evoking aerospace power, may perhaps ensure a better chance for the next attempt.
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