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Airpower for Strategic Effect: by Colin S. Gray

Date Posted:  4/24/2012

Airpower for Strategic Effect is intended to contribute to the understanding of airpower—what it is, what it does, why it does it, and what the consequences are. This is the plot: airpower generates strategic effect.

Airpower’s product is strategic effect on the course of strategic history. Everything about military airpower is instrumental to the purpose of securing strategic effect.

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Air Force Leadeship Study

Date Posted:  3/28/2012

On 23 November 2010, the Air Force chief of staff tasked the Air Force Research Institute (AFRI) to review current Air Force leader development, focusing on the preparation of Airmen for the evolving security challenges in the joint and service environments. This study identifies the characteristics desired for successful senior leaders over the next generation, reviews current Air Force officer development, and recommends changes as indicated...

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New Online Only ASPJ is Out

Date Posted:  3/7/2012

In this issue

Energy Horizons: A Science and Technology Vision for Air Force Energy
Dr Mark T Maybury, Chief Scientist, USAF

The Combined Bomber Offensive’s Destruction of Germany’s Refined-Fuels Industry 
Lt Col Woody W. Parramore, USAF, Retired

Building Global Partnerships: 112 Gripes about the French Revisited
Col Jim Drape, USAF

The Australian Factor in the...


AFRI BOOK REVIEWS

Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire

Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire by Marlene Laruelle. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 296 pp., $60.00.

 

 

          Russian prime minister and former president Vladimir Putin strongly promotes patriotism and defends Russia’s being a great power, yet refuses to endorse Eurasianism as a national identity or rallying cry for a resurgent Russia. In Russian Eurasianism, Marlene Laruelle ponders the extent that the ideology of Eurasianism can be considered a singular Russian phenomenon, post-Soviet defeatist too... Read Full Review