Despite its capabilities and its essential role in Western armed forces, air power is facing a paradox: historically tailored for classic operations but today the victim of its own success, it must now adapt to stabilisation and ‘small wars’. Over and above the RMA and ‘Transformation’, the air arm must realign its doctrine and practices to exploit its irreplaceable flexibility in crisis management and the many uses of the third dimension in joint stabilisation operations.
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