The Air Base as Power Projection Platform

Abstract

The paper gives a short overview on military bases, interprets their establishment and their empolyment in a historical context. The essay talks about the types of overseas bases, which types represent different levels, measures of installations, furthermore gives a review on their attributes, considerations of their establishment putting the focus on air base specific issues. The last chapter shows, from the percpective of the statement that Air Power is an inherently offensive entity this is why its overseas employment is fundamental and obvious, that how air bases supported geotrategic endeavours conducted by Air Power during the 20th century and which tendecy can be expected. Finally, the paper highlights which are the basic attributes and requirements of air bases in the morror of the employed warfighting assets and organisation method and interprets the basic properties of the bases of other services than Air Force.