Creating Great Expectations: Strategic Communications And American Airpower

This Letort Paper from the Strategic Studies Institute, (SSI) demonstrated that Airpower remains America’s greatest asymmetric advantage on the battlefield, and in this Letort Paper, Dr. Conrad Crane suggests some ways strategic communications can be improved to enhance its effectiveness. He traces the course of the U.S. Air Force’s pursuit of true precision capabilities, and how expectations always seem to get ahead of reality. The greatest challenge for current military leaders may not be in educating their civilian bosses about all the things the military instrument of power can accomplish, but instead explaining what it cannot.

Miltary personnel, particularly serving in the AAir Force, veterans and individuals engaged in military strategic and historical studies would all be interested in this concise commentary on Airpower.