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Phillip Meilinger deftly points out the expensive repetitive way that the United States has managed to develop the finest military forces in history, and then proceeded to misuse them shamefully. The author's comprehensive grasp of military strategy, politics, and national characteristics enable him to explain the general failure of U.S. diplomacy across the globe. --Walter J. Boyne, former Director of the National Air and Space Museum This is the sort of book we need to help continue the discussion of how the United States should be engaging in the world. The Air Force is currently developing its next generation bomber which will incorporate the latest in stealth, propulsion, and information technology. At the same time, it is exploring a relatively simple light-attack platform for use in smaller conflicts. These cost money, and the more we discuss what we are trying to accomplish and what systems are required, the better prepared we'll be. This book is a valuable addition to that discussion. --The Free Library [T]his is a book about US strategy, or rather re-thinking US strategy in the context of protecting national interests subject to the usual pressures of representative democracy... [T]he book is easy to read and understand. --From Balloons to Drones For decades, adherents of the Clausewitzian enshrinement of battle and destruction have directed most American wars--with disastrous and unsustainable consequences. Colonel Meilinger employs a wide range of historical examples to argue persuasively that it is time to rethink basic strategy, capitalize on the asymmetric capabilities of airpower, and undertake wars only when clear and attainable objectives are balanced with smart risk and cost calculations. An important read for the US defense establishment! - -- Col. John Warden, USAF (Ret.), author of The Air Campaign, co-author of Winning in FastTime, and president of Venturist, Inc. Phil Meilinger explodes myths and offers new ways to think about the conduct of war. His skillful blending of historical and operational context, proper analysis, and insight into the airpower profession itself makes this timely and in many ways controversial book a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary warfare. It is fascinating, creative and highly enlightening. - Colonel John Andreas Olsen, Royal Norwegian Air Force, author of Airpower Applied Dr. Meilinger, one of the leading lights in air power doctrine and theory, focuses on how the United States could use its advantages in air power to achieve national security goals at lower risk and cost. This important work helps illuminate new approaches to the application of US military power in future conflicts. --Christopher J. Bowie, Director of the Northrop Grumman Analysis Center

Phillip Meilinger deftly points out the expensive repetitive way that the United States has managed to develop the finest military forces in history, and then proceeded to misuse them shamefully. The author's comprehensive grasp of military strategy, politics, and national characteristics enable him to explain the general failure of U.S. diplomacy across the globe. - Walter J. Boyne, former Director of the National Air and Space Museum �Phillip Meilinger deftly points out the expensive repetitive way that the United States has managed to develop the finest military forces in history, and then proceeded to misuse them shamefully. The author�s comprehensive grasp of military strategy, politics, and national characteristics enable him to explain the general failure of U.S. diplomacy across the globe. - Walter J. Boyne, former Director of the National Air and Space Museum �For decades, adherents of the Clausewitzian enshrinement of battle and destruction have directed most American wars�with disastrous and unsustainable consequences. Colonel Meilinger employs a wide range of historical examples to argue persuasively that it is time to rethink basic strategy, capitalize on the asymmetric capabilities of airpower, and undertake wars only when clear and attainable objectives are balanced with smart risk and cost calculations. An important read for the US defense establishment!� - � Col. John Warden, USAF (Ret.), author of The Air Campaign, co-author of Winning in FastTime, and president of Venturist, Inc. �Phil Meilinger explodes myths and offers new ways to think about the conduct of war. His skillful blending of historical and operational context, proper analysis, and insight into the airpower profession itself makes this timely and in many ways controversial book a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary warfare. It is fascinating, creative and highly enlightening.� - Colonel John Andreas Olsen, Royal Norwegian Air Force, author of Airpower Applied �Dr. Meilinger, one of the leading lights in air power doctrine and theory, focuses on how the United States could use its advantages in air power to achieve national security goals at lower risk and cost. This important work helps illuminate new approaches to the application of US military power in future conflicts.� �Christopher J. Bowie, Director of the Northrop Grumman Analysis Center For decades, adherents of the Clausewitzian enshrinement of battle and destruction have directed most American wars--with disastrous and unsustainable consequences. Colonel Meilinger employs a wide range of historical examples to argue persuasively that it is time to rethink basic strategy, capitalize on the asymmetric capabilities of airpower, and undertake wars only when clear and attainable objectives are balanced with smart risk and cost calculations. An important read for the US defense establishment! - -- Col. John Warden, USAF (Ret.), author of The Air Campaign, co-author of Winning in FastTime, and president of Venturist, Inc. Phil Meilinger explodes myths and offers new ways to think about the conduct of war. His skillful blending of historical and operational context, proper analysis, and insight into the airpower profession itself makes this timely and in many ways controversial book a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary warfare. It is fascinating, creative and highly enlightening. - Colonel John Andreas Olsen, Royal Norwegian Air Force, author of Airpower Applied Dr. Meilinger, one of the leading lights in air power doctrine and theory, focuses on how the United States could use its advantages in air power to achieve national security goals at lower risk and cost. This important work helps illuminate new approaches to the application of US military power in future conflicts. --Christopher J. Bowie, Director of the Northrop Grumman Analysis Center

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Phillip S. Meilinger served 30 years in the US Air Force as a command pilot, staff officer and educator, retiring as a colonel. He flew C-130 and HC-130 aircraft in Europe and the Pacific, served as an action officer on the Air Staff in the Pentagon, taught at the Air Force Academy, the Naval War College, and was Dean of the School of Advanced Airpower Studies at Air University. He received a PhD from the University of Michigan and has published ten books and over 110 articles on military and aviation theory, history and operations.

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