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- Air Power in the Age of Primacy
- Air Power in the Age of Primacy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Air Power in the Age of Primacy
- 2 Remote Warfare: A New Architecture of Air Power
- 3 Deliberate Force: Ambivalent Success
- 4 Hoping for Victory: Coercive Air Power and NATO’s Strategy in Kosovo
- 5 Operation Enduring Freedom
- 6 The Result Is Never Final: Operation Iraqi Freedom
- 7 Israeli Air Force Effectiveness during the Second Lebanon War (2006)
- 8 Libya 2011: Hollow Victory in Low-Cost Air War
- 9 Coercing a Chaos State: The Saudi-Led Air War in Yemen
- 10 Russia’s Air War Win in Syria
- 11 Air Power in the Battle of Mosul
- 12 Retrospect and Prospect: Air Power in the Age of Primacy and Beyond
- Index
10 - Russia’s Air War Win in Syria
A Kinetic Approach to Counterinsurgency
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2021
- Air Power in the Age of Primacy
- Air Power in the Age of Primacy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Air Power in the Age of Primacy
- 2 Remote Warfare: A New Architecture of Air Power
- 3 Deliberate Force: Ambivalent Success
- 4 Hoping for Victory: Coercive Air Power and NATO’s Strategy in Kosovo
- 5 Operation Enduring Freedom
- 6 The Result Is Never Final: Operation Iraqi Freedom
- 7 Israeli Air Force Effectiveness during the Second Lebanon War (2006)
- 8 Libya 2011: Hollow Victory in Low-Cost Air War
- 9 Coercing a Chaos State: The Saudi-Led Air War in Yemen
- 10 Russia’s Air War Win in Syria
- 11 Air Power in the Battle of Mosul
- 12 Retrospect and Prospect: Air Power in the Age of Primacy and Beyond
- Index
Summary
Moscow’s air power success in Syria presents an opportunity to assess Russian inter- and intra-war adaptation in kinetic counterinsurgency. New technologies and tactics have enhanced the Russian Aerospace Force’s battlefield lethality and resilience but have not yet triggered a fundamental transition in operating concept. Russia’s air force has yet to actualize a reconnaissance-strike regime or advanced air-ground integration. Instead, situational and strategic factors appear to be more powerful contributors to its superior performance in the Syrian conflict. The way in which Russia has chosen to leverage its improvements in accurate munitions delivery, moreover, highlights key differences between its warfighting philosophy and that embraced by major Western powers. The resultant findings provide insight into Moscow’s coercive campaign logic, force-planning imperatives, and the likelihood that it might re-export the Syria model elsewhere.
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- Air Power in the Age of PrimacyAir Warfare since the Cold War, pp. 229 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021