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In the essay, “The American Way of War,” Michael Kelly states that American war forces concentrate on their remarkable air power. Kelly says in past wars, air forces fought through the defenses and accepted losses on their way to the target or forced those defenses back, but in the Gulf War, the Coalition could strike Iraqi air defenses immediately, and they never recovered from these initial blows. He details that the ability to hit targets with such accuracy was stunning and remarkable. Kelly concludes that the new American air power delivered, finally, on the old dream of a relatively blood