USAF Major John Bellflower, writes of the soft war side of the future Air Force over at Small Wars Journal - The Soft Side of Air Power. Here is the link to the full PDF article.
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"As we begin to contemplate this next phase in the war on terror, which will likely call for heavy involvement in Africa, we should heed the words of Lieutenant General Stephen Lorenz, who counsels airmen to “challenge accepted paradigms to propose new ways of fighting from air, space, and cyberspace.” To that end, we should be mindful of the fact that kinetic effects are not always the most desired effects when intervening in F3 states. Indeed, if the Air Force seeks to play a more meaningful role in any post-Iraq engagement, it must look for novel ways of contributing to the global counterinsurgency fight. It must, as former Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne indicated, “offer the nation a flexible mix of capabilities that allow it to act in a world of growing strategic uncertainty.”
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