Air Power Meets Clausewitz
Military Coercion as Limited War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6235656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Flávio Pedroso Mendes (0000-0002-6837-985X, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Brazilian Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1981-3821 • E-ISSN: 1981-3821 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/1981-3821201900020006 |
| OpenAlex | W2986578214 |
| SCIELO_PID | S1981-38212019000200204 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
This article presents a critical evaluation of the study of military coercion, a field that has gained growing prominence since the end of the Cold War. Its purpose is to analyze what may be the most representative work to come out of this line of research: Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War, by Robert A. Pape (1996). It will interrogate the underlying premise of the work – one shared by the remainder of the substantial literature in this area – according to which military coercion is fundamentally different from war. This interrogation takes into account the contrast between Pape's approach (1996) and Carl von Clausewitz' theory of war (1993). It concludes by identifying what lies at the heart of military coercion and war, and makes two central assertions for the study of military coercion: 01. that military coercion is essentially war and, as such, is a wholly political phenomenon, with results entirely subordinate to politics; and 02. that the occurrences which Pape defines as successful military coercion are nothing more than manifestations of limited war – limited war being one of the two possible forms that war can take
Asymmetric warfare · Coercion (linguistics · Epistemology · Interrogation · Military operations other than war · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Premise · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Military History and Strategy · Philosophy
Bombing to win
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
Makers of Modern Strategy
The Historiography of Airpower
The air force strikes back
Success in modern war
Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work
Coercive Air Power in the Vietnam War
Kosovo and the Great Air Power Debate
Why Japan Surrendered
Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Rational Choice and Security Studies
A Coherent Theory of Coercion? The Writings of Robert Pape
Coercion and military strategy
The concept of logistics derived from Clausewitz
O enquadramento das Missões de Paz (PKO) nas teorias da guerra e de polícia
Some Notes On The Evolution of Air Doctrine
Rational Deterrence Theory
When Does Aerial Bombing Work
Deterrence and International Conflict
Ignoring reality
Strategies of coercion
Clausewitz, o realismo estrutural e a paz democrática
Strategic Thought in America, 1952-1966
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |