2000/04/01 by Daniel L. Byman, Matthew C. Waxman · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Global Peace and Security Dynamics #Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics #Political Conflict and Governance #Icon #Corporation #Rand corporation #Citation #Download #Search engine optimization #Power (physics) #Library science #Political science #Computer science #World Wide Web #Law #Management #Search engine #Economics
paper · doi:10.1162/016228800560291
openalex publication_date 2000/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The following section provides an overview of how to think about air power and coercion, addressing several key limits of the current literature. We next examine NATO goals in Kosovo and the mixed success eventually achieved. Using that baseline, we explore various explanations for Belgrade's eventual capitulation and clarify how air power's role in each of them should be understood; we leave aside the issue of whether coercion was a proper strategy for addressing the Balkan crisis and focus instead on how to assess air power as a tool of that strategy. We conclude with recommendations for recasting the air power debate to better reflect air power's true contributions and limits.