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The organized, integrated use of planes and missiles for purposes of foreign policy, strategy, operations, and tactics.

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  • We have had ships in the Persian gulf for 20+ years now, so our ability to project airpower is always there.
  • "airpower" we mean the tactical and strategic employment of conventional aviation ordnance, including air-dropped mines.
  • Rebuilding Iraqi airpower means starting from zero.
  • American airpower was called in, the Iraqis subdued.
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