Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower: An Introduction

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. An Introduction to Contemporary Strategy
	Introduction
	1 Defining Contemporary Military Strategy
	2 Strategic Foundations
	3 Operational Design: One Method of Reconciling Ends, Ways, and Means
	4 The Ways of War: Constructing a Compellence Strategy
	5 Capabilities That Generate Effects
Part II. Airpower Strategy and Levels of Effects
	Introduction
	6 Airpower for Strategic Effect: Classic to Contemporary Airpower Theory
	7 Multidomain Airpower Strategy: Integrating Air, Space, and Cyber Assets
	8 Intelligence, ISR, and Strategy
Part III. Air, Space, and Cyber Effects
	Introduction
	9 Global Precision Engagement
	10 Rapid Global Mobility and Agile Combat Support
	11 Airpower and Irregular Warfare: A Battle of Ideas
	12 Space Power
	13 Offense and Defense in Cyberspace
Part IV. Defense Organization and the Joint Operating Environment
	Introduction
	14 Goldwater-Nichols and the Evolution of the Joint Force
	15 Roles and Missions of the Armed Services
	16 Special Operations
Part V. Contemporary Challenges in the Application of Strategy
	Introduction
	17 Flawed Reasoning and Bias in Decision-Making
	18 Unmanned Aerial Systems
	19 Expanding DoD Missions and Mission Creep
	20 Constructing Effects: A Strategic Theory of Security Cooperation
	21 Hybrid Warfare: The End of Conventional Wars in the Twenty-First Century?
	22 Innovation and Organizational Politics
	23 Analyzing ISIS in the Contemporary Environment
Conclusion
List of Contributors
Index
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