Over the Horizon: Airpower and Savage Wars By: Robert Farley | Column

Over the Horizon: Airpower and Savage Wars

By: Robert Farley | Column

To some, the fact that Gen. David Petraeus, the American military figure most associated with counterinsurgency, is responsible for increasing the use of airpower in Aghanistan represents a paradox. But assessments of the utility of airpower in counterinsurgency efforts have always been bound up in debates over the utility of airpower itself and over the importance of air forces as a separate arm of the military.