Air Power and a Liberal Way in War: The West’s Quest to Remove Battle from War

Sunday, February 19, 2012

I recently put in a proposal for the a conference at the University of Reading on the Liberal Way in War. While the paper was not accepted for the main conference I was asked to deliver my paper at the Postgraduate Symposium being held the day before. The conference itself will see more than 40 papers delivered on this subject including keynotes by Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman and Professor Richard Overy. The conference is part of the university’s Levehulme funded project on the Liberal Way in War and it should be an interesting experience. Given Colin Gray future book on Airpower and Strategic Effect it will be interesting to see how my paper is received. I just need to sit down and write it now as there may be the possibility of publishing it. Here is the abstract:

http://thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/air-power-and-a-liberal-way-in-war-the-wests-quest-to-remove-battle-from-war/