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air power

noun

the total military capability of a nation for operations involving the use of aircraft and missiles.

air power

First recorded in 1905–10

Kurdish forces declared victory and freed Yazidi holdouts, with help from U.S. air power.

A major reason why: the lack of U.S. ground forces to direct American air power against ISIS positions.

We could, I guess, give them an air power wedgie or stuff them into the locker of a naval engagement.

History has shown that air power can be a deciding factor in battles, if only the Arab states would use it against ISIS.

The Iraqi government had air power and resources available to rescue VIPs but left its cities under siege to fend for themselves.

If a kite would give motive power to a man skating, why not use a more up-to-date air-power scheme on the ice?

The great sender there was still supplying air-power and power for the city lights.

The city, plunged into darkness and without the district air-power, was isolated, cut off from the outside world.

You would think the maritime force would reexamine the method it provides air power from the sea, vital yet today too vulnerable.

Before many years the ability to make war successfully, or even at all, will depend upon air power.

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