Accession Number:

ADA280540

Title:

Mao, Air Power, and Victorian Warfare. A Strategy for Future Conflicts

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL

Personal Author(s):

• Ogan, Andrew J.

Report Date:

1994-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

31.0

Abstract:

Future conflicts will post threats to US interests as US policy makers attempt to stabilize world situations. The resulting conflicts will like by of the small war variety, e.g., conflicts that must be resolved but are not directly threatening to vital or core US interests. Factions within these conflict areas will probably launch guerrilla operations as a counter to any conventional military involvement. Since the military instrument will probably be the option of choice to resolve these wars, a model within which to apply military force is essential to assure effective use of military force without weakening political resolve or conventional force capability. A historic model, the Victorian approach to warfare, effectively dealt with many small wars over a 100 year period.

Descriptors:

• *FOREIGN POLICY
• *MILITARY STRATEGY
• *UNITED STATES
• *FORECASTING
• *UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE
• *AIR POWER
• STABILIZATION
• CONVENTIONAL WARFARE
• LIMITED WARFARE
• GUERRILLA WARFARE
• MILITARY FORCE LEVELS
• MILITARY CAPABILITIES
• MODELS
• INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
• WARFARE
• MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES)

Subject Categories:

• Military Aircraft Operations
• Administration and Management
• Government and Political Science
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
• Unconventional Warfare

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE