Air Power and Homeland Security - Air Marshal G.S. Chaudhry Armed Forces have always been an important organ of the State and a powerful tool in furthering the State policies. Classically, their role related to engaging external forces and hence the armed forces were equipped and trained to use ‘maximum’ force to achieve their objectives. Internal security issues, on the other hand, have had to be dealt with using ‘minimum’ force and as such the Police Forces, assigned for this task, have always been ‘lightly’ armed and trained. On the other hand technological advances and globalisation have given new dimensions to insurgency and terrorism, euphemistically, also termed as warfare of the future/proxy war/ LICO (Low intensity Conflict Operation) as come to be understood. These transformations of internal security into insurgency and terrorism have forced us to re-visit the erstwhile classic roles of the armed forces. While the army has for long been employed on internal security duty and for anti-terrorism operations, the Air Force has almost been kept insulated from this task. The use of Air Power in fighting insurgency is not as well documented as the conventional wars. Also, Air Power is only a century old while Low Intensity Conflicts are as old as mankind. However, Air Power has often been employed in LICO situations by various nations from the time of birth of this potent force. Some examples being:- Read more at: goo.gl/j6tiir
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:18:43 +0000
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