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标题：Terror Targeting: The Morale of the Story
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作者：Eric Ash
期刊名称：Air & Space Power Journal
印刷版ISSN：1554-2505
出版年度：1999
卷号：13
期号：4
页码：33-47
语种：English
出版社：U.S. Air Force, Air University
摘要：CLAUSEWITZ NOTED CORRECTLY that war is foggy. One of its foggiest elements is morale, a subject clearly less glamorous than high-technology precision weapons and informadon systems but no less important. There has been no “revoluuon in morale affairs” to make the gray shades of morale more black and white. Instead, because morale keeps us flying on instruments “in the soup,” it serves as a governor to check the hyper pace of modem warfare. Morale inertia also carries an imperative that the will to win the fight is something the victor must maintain and the vanquished must lose.1 United States Air Force leaders know this because they continue to face challenges worldwide having to do with people’s willingness or lack of will to keep the peace. Morale played a major part during aerial bombing campaigns in Southwest Asia and more recently in Eastern Europe, where it again remained an elusive but criucal factor. In addidon, despite the Air Force’s airpower and space power preeminence in the world.