Abstract
Aristotle once remarked how many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had just dared to define their terms. Yet defining what the term ‘air power’ should and should not encompass has always proved difficult and often highly contentious.
Air power is the most difficult of all forms of military force to measure, or even to express in precise terms.
Winston Spencer Churchill
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Jury, A.R., ‘Aircraft Battle Damage Repair — An Effective Force Multiplier’, in unpublished MOD Journal, vol. 46, November 1992, p. 413.
Slessor, Sir John, ‘The Past Development of Air Power’, Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, 1949, p. 224.
See for example Roos, John G., ‘Sweden’s $800-Million Armor Prize will not be Won by a Snow Job’, in Armed Forces Journal International May 1992, p. 22, which quotes the cost of 200 tanks at $800 million.
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Vallance, A.G.B. (1996). Warfare in the Third Dimension: Air Power in Perspective. In: The Air Weapon. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24420-1_2
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