항공력의 효용성 향상방안에 관한 연구 - 대분란전 수행을 위한 규범적 개선방안을 중심으로 - = A Study on the Usefulness of Air Power in the Insurgency Warfare

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Through history, the victories of war have been dominantly related with the superiority over power and so have the wars of the U.S. Among them, more than anything, air power has been the core factor to win the wars and the importance of that has been growing on and on. In recent wars, however, the fame of U.S air power seems changing or, if not, diminished. Especially in Iraq and Afghanistan war, this phenomenon is getting serious. What is the reason? In this paper, I tried to analyze the reason in the view of insurgency warfare and reconsider the better usage of air power in changing phase of war. The insurgency warfare is a type of war that non-states parties execute to achieve their political purposes by using irregular methods in politic, economic, social, technologic way in addition to any measures that they can exploit. Therefore, in this paper, I analyzed the existed usage of air power in battle-field and tried to figure out whether the existed way is still effective in insurgency situations such as Iraq and Afghanistan war in terms of international humanitarian law and other ways. As a result, my study resulted in that the usage of air power in 4th generation war is changing compared to the past and we should try to adapt a new way of approach when using air power and to win in the war, not in the batter on the spot. Specifically, this new way indicates that we need to strengthen legal factor in terms of international humanitarian law to avoid further civilian death toll and we need to focus on not only before and during the war, but also after the major combat operation finished not to generate more insurgents. To achieve this purpose, I got to figure out that we need to detail laws about using air power in insurgency situations, adapt strategic changes in using air power, decrease the expenses in relation to air power, clear open the information after executing air-strikes in relation to the civilian death toll, maintain attitude to take responsibility about our faults. This paper is meaningful in that I analyzed we need to approach in a different point of view when fighting with insurgents, I focused on more about demerits of using air power than existed good points, I refreshed the fact that we need to be more careful about using it, I introduced, though too conceptual, some way of reaction to win the insurgency warfare, I figured out settlement is much more important to win in the 4th generation warfare.