Saving NATO with airpower

Panayotis Yannakogeorgos and Adam Lowther, ISN (Switzerland)
When the United States Air Force recently modified the definition of airpower to include air, space, and cyber power, many analysts viewed this change as a conflation of three distinct domains. However, in doing so, the Air Force emphasized that, unlike the other services, it considers space and cyber not as enablers of operations but as maneuver environments—that facilitate improved operations. This broadened understanding of airpower has the potential to offer a new framework for employing it in ways not previously contemplated. (...) It also gives airpower strategists the opportunity to consider new ways in which NATO air forces can employ cyber and space power to attain the global stability sought by the alliance.