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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Air-land battle is a term coined by the Americans following their experiences in the Korean and Vietnam wars. They realised that tenets of fighting wars were no longer those based on the World War II model where large ground formations took on the adversary in what were basically variations of the frontal assault and large infantry and tank engagements. With precision guided munitions coming into the inventory from the end of the Vietnam War and technology driven air power getting a bigger say through the capability asymmetry that it introduced, a concept of synergising tactics in conjunction with operational art to generate the desired strategic effects took shape in the form of the air-land battle model.
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