Air Power in UN Operations

Wings for Peace
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4724-3549-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Military Strategy and Operational Art

Air power for warfighting is a story that's been told many times. Air power for peacekeeping and UN enforcement is a story that desperately needs to be told. For the first-time, this volume covers the fascinating range of aerial peace functions. In rich detail it describes: aircraft transporting vital supplies to UN peacekeepers and massive amounts of humanitarian aid to war-affected populations; aircraft serving as the 'eyes in sky' to keep watch for the world organization; and combat aircraft enforcing the peace. Rich poignant case studies illuminate the past and present use of UN air power, pointing the way for the future. This book impressively fills the large gap in the current literature on peace operations, on the United Nations and on air power generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dorn, A. Walter

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Militär- und Verteidigungstechnik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: The UN's First “Air Force”; 1: Planning, Organizing, and Commanding the Air Operation in the Congo, 1960; 2: Peacekeepers in Combat: Fighter Jets and Bombers in the Congo, 1961–1963; 3: A Fine Line: Use of Force, the Cold War, and Canada's Air Support for the UN Organization in the Congo; II: Airlift: Lifeline for UN Missions; 4: Above the Rooftop of the World: Canadian Air Operations in Kashmir and Along the India–Pakistan Border; 5: Humanitarian Relief in Haiti, 2010: Honing the Partnership between the US Air Force and the UN; 6: Flying Humanitarians: The UN Humanitarian Air Service; III: Aerial Surveillance: Eyes in the Sky; 7: Aerial Surveillance: Eyes in the Sky; 8: UN Observer Group in Lebanon: Aerial Surveillance During a Civil War, 1958; 9: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Supporting UN Operations: A Commercial Service Model; IV: The UN and No-fly Zones; 10: The UN Iraq–Kuwait Observer Mission and the Southern No-fly Zone, 1991–2003; 11: Observing Air Power at Work in Sector Sarajevo, 1993–1994: A Personal Account; V: Combat: Enforcing the Peace; 12: Air Operations in Somalia: “Black Hawk Down” Revisited; 13: Operation Deliberate Force in Bosnia, 1995: Humanitarian Constraints in Aerospace Warfare; 14: Combat Air Power in the Congo, 2003–; 15: Allied Air Power over Libya; VI: Evolving Capabilities; 16: Advances in Aviation for UN Peacekeeping: A View from UN Headquarters; 17: Peace from Above: Envisioning the Future of UN Air Power; Afterword: Some Reflections

Über Autor(innen)

A. Walter Dorn is Professor of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) and chair of the Department of Security and International Affairs at the Canadian Forces College (CFC). As an 'operational professor', he has visited many UN missions and gained direct experience in field missions. He has served in Ethiopia as a UNDP consultant, at UN headquarters as a training adviser and as a consultant with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations. He has provided guidance to the UN on introducing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to the Eastern Congo.