Reference:An Analytical Framework for Airpower in Small Wars

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Full Title: One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: An Analytical Framework for Airpower in Small Wars Author: Stuewe, Ronald F., Jr. Document Type: Naval Postgraduate School Thesis Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School Year: 2006 Read Online: DTIC (or alternately, Air & Space Power Journal, Vol. XX, No. 1 (Spring 2006)) Subjects: Malayan Emergency, Falklands War, First Indochina War

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Examines the employment of airpower in six "small conflicts" to address the question of what the proper employment of airpower in small wars is, given the historical context. The conflicts examined include:

• The British involvement on the Malay Peninsula, 1948-1960
• The British in the Falkland Islands, 1982
• The French in the First Indochina War, 1946-1954
• The French in Algeria, 1954-1962
• The US and the Anti-Huk Campaign in the Philippines
• The US in El Salvador