Achieving and Ensuring Air Dominance

By Craig A. Hughes

This research paper advocates and explains air dominance. Air dominance goes
beyond air superiority and supremacy in that it not only ensures that friendly aircraft can
fly anywhere in enemy territory, but that they can also be effective at performing their
mission. Suppression of ground-to-air attacks, prevention of attacks on our airbases, and
overcoming domestic attacks on procurement are all important in ensuring the
effectiveness, or dominance, of airpower. I chose this research topic because I had some
experience with air dominance as a F-15C Eagle pilot from the Summer of 1989 to the
Summer of 1992. I actively participated in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm
with the 27th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing. I believe this
research has particular value to the reader in that it reiterates the value of air dominance
to the campaign planner, it reinforces that value through historical analysis, it closely
examines the potential future threats (both foreign and domestic), then it proposes future
courses of action. The goal is to ensure that the USAF's future air dominance
requirements are being adequately addressed and that tomorrow's war fighters will
continue to benefit from air dominance.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1249841275
• ISBN13: 9781249841272
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Biblioscholar
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"