Aerospace Power: Beyond 100 Years of Theory and Practice (Volume I)
Edited by James G. Fergusson

This book examines evolution of aerospace power in the 20th century, and outlines a way ahead in its future development. In World War I, air power was viewed chiefly in terms of its strategic use; however, alongside this initial dominant idea quickly grew another - air power as a control instrument. Since its inception, states have used air power to achieve certain foreign policy goals, mostly in war times. In the second half of the 20th century this domain was extended to the outer space. Therefore, sutdy of the unique domain of aerospace power also merits its own research and analysis. Today aerospace power also represents a public good instrument - a point sometimes overlooked by students and critics of aerospace power. The first volume of Silver Dart Canadian Aersopace Studies series addresses all five instruments of aerospace power: struggle, control, foreign policy, domain, and public good.

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Air Campaigns in the New World Order (Volume II)
Edited by Allan D. English

The volume approaches the subject of air campaigns from the principle of the usefulness of them in current and future military conflicts, both large and small, and in peaceful times. The nature of air operations has changed since the end of the Cold War, but new trends are not without historical precedents. The ongoing changes that take place in Western air forces also include the formal adoption of campaign planning and operational art to condcut air operations. In the Canadian context there is a new focus on the difference between domestic and overseas operations as well. Among the contributors to the volume are Lieutenant-General Ken Pennie, Major-General Marc Dumais, James S. Corum, Thomas Keany, Robert Martyn, T.F.J. Leversedge, and others.

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Weapons in Space: Strategic and Policy Implications (Volume III)
Wilson Wong

The importance of space to Western security and prosperity has brought about a clear need to protect Western space assets. The best means to providing such protection is somewhat less clear. Safeguarding the satellites that provide critical services to consumers and warfighters on Earth leads to the issue, but not necessarily the reality, of "weaponizing" space. In the debate over the future military use of space, the technical and political distinctions between militarization and space weaponization can be best described only as being "fuzzy." Indeed, depending on ones point of view, current and near-term military space endeavours have already crossed the threshold for weaponzizing space.

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No Clear Flight Plan: Counterinsurgency and Aerospace Power (Volume IV)
Edited by James Fergusson and William March

In the fall of 2001 following the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, and the Pentagon in Washington, DC, US aerospace power played a critical role in the destruction of the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan. US air strikes employing space-based targeting sensors, cued by forward deployed US special forces attached to the Northern Alliance quickly routed the Taliban. In the campaign that followed in the south-eastern mountains of Afghanistan, aerospace power continued to play a crucial role. However, as the initial campaign came to an ostensible conclusion, the violence ebbed, and then began to escalate in a somewhat different form, the significance of aerospace power faded into memory. Instead, attention became focused almost exclusively on ground forces. A similar pattern also occurred in Iraq – aerospace power transitioning from a major or crucial role to a forgotten one.

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The International System, Canada, Armed Forces and Aerospace Power: 2018 and Beyond (Volume V)
Edited by James G. Fergusson

Canadian foreign policy fundamentals established during the Cold War have demonstrated remarkable resilience despite the transformation of the international system with the end of the Cold War, notwithstanding all the difficulties faced by the Canadian Forces (CF) in transforming from the static environment of Cold War deterrence to the dynamic environment of Peace Support Operations from the Gulf War, through Somalia and the Former Yugoslavia to Afghanistan. Not surprisingly, few, if any senior National Defence and CF officials wish to face another sudden and costly transformation, especially having finally achieved some formal Government assurances for a stable and predictable future with a twenty-year planning process now tentatively in-place. As the immediate past is reference for the future, so is the distant past drawn upon to identify alternatives. In this regard, the Cold War continues to resonate beneath the surface, having been re-awakened most prominently by the recent Russian conflict with Georgia. While a resurgent Russia is not the Soviet Union, such that the global ideological characteristic of the Cold War is absent, and renewed Russian strength is largely dependent on petro-rubles, the notion of an approaching Cold War is essentially the idea of the return of Great Power conflict as the defining feature of the future international system. Even more, from a broader historical perspective, there exists a strange parallel between the past and the present. Following the limited wars of German unification in the Nineteenth Century, European Great Power attention was drawn to the colonial world. Like the past fifteen years, Europe faced violent nation-building exercises in the Balkans, the ‘Great Game’ in Asia centered upon Afghanistan, and the ‘carving up’ of Africa. This, in turn, gave way to renewed Great Power rivalry on the European continent leading to the disaster of World War One.

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