Airpower and Strategy

Recommended Prerequisites

NA.

Teaching Methods

The teaching of this course is based on theoretical and theoretical-practical classes, supported by iconographic elements, analysis of contemporary texts, group work, readings and individual work, with the presentation and discussion of matters arising from those works.

Learning Outcomes

It is intended to provide students with a coherent overview of the creation, development and evolution of airpower and its employment strategy and its importance in international relations and armed conflict. It is intended that students understand, contextualize and look at history through the angle of military aerospace capabilities and the use of new weapons systems in the incessant attempt to achieve supremacy over the enemy.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The evolution of Air Power theory

1.1. Foundations of Air Power

1.2. Coercive Air Power Strategy

1.3. Space Operations

2. The Transformation of contemporary Air and Space Power

2.1. The Age of Coalition Air Warfare

2.2. Technology and Air Power

2.3. Air Power Role in Irregular Warfare

2.4. Remote Air Warfare

3. The Portuguese Air Power experiences

3.1. Counter Insurgency in Africa

3.2. Expeditionary operations in the 21st Century

4. The application of Air Power throughout history: case studies

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

1. Gray, Colin S. - Airpower for strategic effect. Air University Press, Montgomery, 2012

2 Stockings, Craig; Fernandes, Clinton - Airpower and the myth of strategic bombing as a strategy. ISAA Review, Vol 5, No 2, 2006. pp. 6-20.

3 Pape, Robert A. - Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1996.

4. Meilinger, Phillip (ed) - The Paths Of Heaven: The Evolution Of Airpower Theory.Air University Press, Montgomery, 1997.

5. Singer, Peter - Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. The Penguin Press, New York, 2009