Airpower, Chaos, and Infrastructure: Lords of the Rings: Maxwell Paper No. 14

Airpower, Chaos, and Infrastructure: Lords of the Rings: Maxwell Paper No. 14

by Lieutenant Colonel USAF Edward Felker
Airpower, Chaos, and Infrastructure: Lords of the Rings: Maxwell Paper No. 14

Airpower, Chaos, and Infrastructure: Lords of the Rings: Maxwell Paper No. 14

by Lieutenant Colonel USAF Edward Felker

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Overview

This interesting study by Lt. Col. Edward J. Felker, US Air Force, describes a methodology to exploit airpower's capacities at the operational and strategic levels of war. It focuses on the third ring (infrastructure) of John A. Warden II"s theory of five strategic rings, which the author argues is often neglected in the debate over the importance of leadership (first ring) versus fielded forces (fifth ring). The author emphasizes that lines of communications transmit all of society's military, economic, and political goods, services, and information. Infrastructure provides the framework that links the various elements of a nation's power. This infrastructure contains critical nodes that are vulnerable to airpower. By understanding this infrastructure, we better understand an adversary as a complex, adaptive, and open system. Colonel Felker's paper espouses a practical theory of airpower based on the synergistic relationship among societal structure and line of communications that comprise infrastructure. Rather than isolating different elements of a society and their concomitant targets, the theory views targets in a more holistic way. Of note, the theory articulates a culturally based paradigm with airpower applied against the linkages within a society's system processes, rather than a "one-size-fits-all" target list that attacks form. The theory describes a way to think about airpower, not a way to execute its missions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781479350223
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 09/19/2012
Pages: 46
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.10(d)
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