cshchan
05-21-2005, 02:27 AM
Airpower In Non-Conventional Operations
by LTC Lim Kok Siong, CPT Stanley Chua & CPT Teh Hua Fung
Global security underwent a paradigm shift in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In the 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union, dismantling of the Warsaw Pact, and the subsequent end of the Cold War, triggered a re-orientation of military focus from conventional wars to non-conventional operations. Military forces were employed increasingly for missions related to peacekeeping, evacuation, humanitarian aid and Low-Intensity Conflicts (LICs). In the late 1990s, following a series of terrorist attacks on US facilities throughout the world, "A National Security Strategy for a New Century” identified transnational terrorism as a key concern for the US in the Year 2000 and beyond. 1 Indeed, T3 soon took its place at the top of the US Armed Forces’ agenda in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11. Against this backdrop of a new security paradigm, capabilities of armed forces throughout the world were fundamentally re-assessed... (http://www.mindef.gov.sg/safti/pointer/back/journals/2004/Vol30_3/4.htm)
by LTC Lim Kok Siong, CPT Stanley Chua & CPT Teh Hua Fung
Global security underwent a paradigm shift in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In the 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union, dismantling of the Warsaw Pact, and the subsequent end of the Cold War, triggered a re-orientation of military focus from conventional wars to non-conventional operations. Military forces were employed increasingly for missions related to peacekeeping, evacuation, humanitarian aid and Low-Intensity Conflicts (LICs). In the late 1990s, following a series of terrorist attacks on US facilities throughout the world, "A National Security Strategy for a New Century” identified transnational terrorism as a key concern for the US in the Year 2000 and beyond. 1 Indeed, T3 soon took its place at the top of the US Armed Forces’ agenda in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11. Against this backdrop of a new security paradigm, capabilities of armed forces throughout the world were fundamentally re-assessed... (http://www.mindef.gov.sg/safti/pointer/back/journals/2004/Vol30_3/4.htm)