摘要：Perhaps the most fundamental airpower issue is the relationship between air forces and surface forces.At one extreme one finds the doctrine of Giulio Douhet,as expounded in his seminal work The Command of the Air.According to Douhet.airpower is best employed as an inde- pendent arm.directly attacking the enemy homeland and achieving victory by bombarding it into submission.The United States applied Douhet's theory in its purest form during the mid-to-late 1950s,when its military strategy em- phasized Strategic Air Command.At the other extreme,airpower functions as an enabler and force multiplier,but the ground force is the deci- sive arm-an apt description of the use of air- power in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
