...attempt
to clear away some of the detritus that
obscures the subject, thus allowing more
informed debate on the real issues concerning
airpower and strategic bombing.
...in the
foreseeable future, the spectrum of conflict will encompass war
in forms and on levels of intensity that render ineffectual
conventional means to resolve them.
This report is an outgrowth of questions raised in the fall of 1980 and spring of
1981 about the conduct of air operations in the war between Iran and Iraq.