The Role of Air Power in UN Peacekeeping - By Lisa Sharland, Jarrod Pendlebury and Phillip Champion

Nonetheless, limited consideration has been given to the strategic application of air power as a core dimension of UN peacekeeping.1 Owing to the rapid evolution of threats in the air domain during conflict, as well as debates about the future of UN peacekeeping, the UN Secretariat and member states can no longer afford to overlook the strategic significance of the air domain to UN peacekeeping mi. [...] Evolution of the Use of the Air Domain in UN Peacekeeping The air domain has been an important part of UN peacekeeping missions since the establishment of some of the earliest missions by the UN Security Council. [...] In such mission contexts the risks of flying were often significant owing to the terrain and attacks on UN forces by hostile groups, as occurred in the Congo and Angola.11 In the 1960s, in the country then known simply as “Congo,” fighter jets and bomber aircraft were used to deter and respond to attacks in support of the mission’s mandate to prevent the outbreak of civil war.12 The use of such ca. [...] C oncept of Air Power in UN Peacekeeping This report seeks to build understanding about the contribution of the air domain to the implementation of peacekeeping mandates (the ends or objectives), articulate the different roles that can be used in the air domain (the ways) by enhancing understanding of the different effects that air power can provide to peacekeeping in delivery of the mandate, and. [...] THE FUTURE OF UN AIR POWER: MISSION MODELS AND THE ROLES OF AIR POWER Several different types of future mission settings will rely on the total utilization of the air domain to deliver on mission mandates, but these may vary in the types of assets they require to achieve this effect due to the footprint of the mission (in terms of size and geography), the type of mandate, and whether they are oper.