How to Use airpower in a Sentence

airpower

noun
  • From that point airpower could reach anywhere on the high seas.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Plea for peace, threaten more airpower, or insist the main cities will hold?
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Ukraine does not have the luxury of this type of airpower, and faces strong air defence.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The combined use of theater airpower and friendly ground forces has a clear logic.
    — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The Kurds didn’t have their own airpower; the Americans were in the fight.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • So far, automation has focused on naval power and airpower in the form of sea and air drones.
    — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Instead, both the existing and new squadrons will remain in place to double the airpower on hand.
    — Tara Copp and Lolita C. Baldor, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Dozens of people have already been killed in the fighting, which has involved artillery strikes and airpower.
    — The Economist, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Defeating Moscow, of course, would require a lot of airpower.
    — Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
  • More airpower could be stationed in Poland and Romania.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The regime also switched to the indiscriminate use of airpower.
    — Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2018
  • The first is a belief that airpower can be employed to achieve strategic, not just tactical, objectives.
    — Andrew P. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2025
  • As in World War I, the lack of airpower also affected the speed of conflict.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2022
  • What’s more, says one observer, airpower and ground troops are like eggs and bacon – the chicken is involved, the pig is committed.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Leveraging airpower on a smaller scale.
    — Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In this way, the European coalition could project airpower into Ukraine at short notice.
    — Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Israel is hardly the first country to err by placing excessive faith in the coercive magic of airpower.
    — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The report makes clear that Turkey has only one real solution to maintain its airpower.
    — Michael Peck, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • Shane Arnott, who directs Boeing’s airpower teaming system program, said in a video.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 15 May 2020
  • So the motorcycles range out in front of the armored spearheads, in front of the airpower looking for weaknesses in the enemy lines.
    — Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The seas of the Middle East are bristling with American warships and airpower trained on Iran.
    — February 26, NPR, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Iraqis also say fighting for the dense, urban spaces of western Mosul requires more airpower, even if that means more civilians will die.
    — Tim Arango, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
  • In the months leading up to the Normandy invasion, targets up and down the French coastline were bombed and strafed by allied airpower.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
  • The true innovation of precision airpower has been to enhance the value of the hammer-and-anvil strategy.
    — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2022
  • By the late 1930s, the United States was unprepared for the scale of airpower a world war would demand.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Until the advent of these weapons, airpower could rarely destroy tanks, trucks, command posts, or bridges used to supply fielded forces, even with thousands of bombs aimed at these tiny targets.
    — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2022
  • For arguably the first time in history, FPV drones have effectively placed airpower in the hands of ground forces.
    — Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • As these drones improve and become more integrated, they are expected to change how air wars are fought and how military airpower is organized.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
  • At the core of this was the development of both a significant globe-spanning navy and, increasingly, airpower.
    — Robert Bateman, Esquire, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Assad’s forces, meanwhile, can now begin a potentially fierce fight to reclaim the city as a whole with the backing of Russian airpower.
    — Jared Malsin, Time, 5 Sep. 2017

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