The Enduring Allure Of Airpower

Over The Horizon: Syria, Iran And The Enduring Allure Of Airpower -- Robert Farley, World Politics Review

Who shall we bomb next? Pundits and commentators have begun to fall over themselves declaring the necessity of launching military campaigns against Syria and Iran -- the former to prevent a humanitarian disaster and the latter to forestall the development of a nuclear weapon. The catalyst for this enthusiasm is the success of NATO’s aerial campaign in Libya, a war that apparently vindicated the long-standing promise of advanced, precision-guided airpower to cheaply and easily solve inconvenient political problems. Unfortunately, the rediscovered enthusiasm for intervention demonstrates only that the foreign policy punditocracy is committed to serially mislearning the lessons of airpower in war.

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My Comment: History has shown that air power has limits, but when working in cooperation with ground forces it can be very effective. But will there be NATO ground forces in places like Iran, Syria, etc .... hmmmm .... I doubt it.