This study addresses the theme of airpower in irregular warfare, more specifically information age airpower in modern irregular conflict. It uses the scase study of airpower application in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2016. Its central research quastion is: what was the role of airpower during the conflict, …

Unconventional crises have gained the upper hand in todays international security environment. The numbers of Special Operations Forces (SOF) that most Western militaries have at their disposal do deal with these types of crises are limited; therefore increasingly regular troops are used to fill the …

The author compares Israeli and Hezbollah land warfare with the principles stipulated for this in Dutch Army doctrine. It reveals the difficulty any western regular army would have when faced with an adversary partially employing irregular war fighting methods. This asymmetry includes some more structural …