Denying Flight Strategic Options for Employing No-Fly Zones

• Main Author: Mueller, Karl P. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2013
• Subjects: Middle Eastern history; Defence strategy, planning & research; Air forces & warfare; History
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In the past two decades, the U.S. Air Force has participated in three contingencies involving no-fly zones (NFZs) over Bosnia, Iraq, and Libya, and NFZ proposals have been proffered for some time as an option for intervention in the Syrian civil war that would avoid placing Western troops on the gro...