Air Occupation: Asking the Right Questions
Abstract
What do we mean by the term air occupation? The term air occupation? can be very perplexing. Unfortunately, neither the term air occupation, nor the word occupation, is defined in Joint or Air Force doctrine. Of the many historic occupation objectives, air occupation? most likely applies to less intrusive scenarios that attempt to coerce, enforce sanctions, or create buffer zones. Probable air occupation? tasks to achieve these objectives would include a combination of presence, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, psychological operations, humanitarian airdrops and airlift, and punitive strikes. The U.S. Air Force could reduce some of the intellectual resistance to air occupation? by using the term air intervention instead. This would unload the parochial and legal baggage associated with the word "occupation" and link it to the extensive discourse on intervention theory.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA394007
Entities
People
- Marc K. Dippold
Organizations
- Air Command and Staff College