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Airpower for Strategic Effect: by Colin S. GrayAirpower for Strategic Effect is intended to contribute to the understanding of airpower—what it is, what it does, why it does it, and what the consequences are. This is the plot: airpower generates strategic effect. |
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Air Force Leadeship StudyOn 23 November 2010, the Air Force chief of staff tasked the Air Force Research Institute (AFRI) to review current Air Force leader development, focusing on the preparation of Airmen for the evolving security challenges in the joint and service environments. This study identifies the characteristics desired for successful senior leaders over the next generation, reviews current Air Force officer development, and recommends changes as indicated... |
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New Online Only ASPJ is OutIn this issue The Combined Bomber Offensive’s Destruction of Germany’s Refined-Fuels Industry Building Global Partnerships: 112 Gripes about the French Revisited The Australian Factor in the... |
AFRI BOOK REVIEWS
Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of Victory
Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of Victory by John Davis Lewis. Princeton University Press, 2010, 354 pp., $29.95.
In Nothing Less than Victory, John Davis Lewis analyses six conflicts to prove his belief that war is primarily “a clash of moral purposes” (p. 3). Currently a Duke visiting professor in philosophy, politics, and economics, Lewis questions the currently accepted view that by pursuing victory we will “create new grievances and guarantee an even more destructive conflict in the future” (p. 2). Rather than accept this argument, Lewis presents six major wars where a “clear-cut victory” was achieved and the founda...
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