Effectiveness of No-Fly Zones as a Coercive Strategy in Achieving Political Outcomes

Air/Space/Cyber Power and National Strategy- Part 2
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Most people usually use space power for different reasons. Even though there are different reasons, one of the common reasons is that space power is used in military force. For instance, countries use space power for political reasons to coerce some regions to follow their instructions. Even though some countries are using it for this purpose, some people argue that this approach is effective, while others argue that this approach is not achieving the expected results the benefits that it was expected to have. No-fly zones can be effective in some regions, such as Libya, Bosnia, and Iraq, and ineffective in other regions, such as Syria.
The application of coercive airpower has successfully attained political outcomes in various countries in previous years. For instance, Tom Torkelson highlights that the applications of no-fly zones have been used to attain political outcomes in countries such as Libya, Bosnia, and Iraq. Even though the USA's coercion of Libya had military objectives, it also had political objectives. For instance, one of the main reasons the U.S. applied coercion on Libya was to protect Libyan civilians from harm (Torkelson 2019). For instance, the U.S. applied limited and regime punishment with various coalition leaders. The main reason for following this process was to convince their civilian masters that it was critical to use destruction or integrated defense system degradation. This process helped the U.S. to attain peace for the Libyans.
Furthermore, the no-fly zones policy also impacted both Bosnia and Iraq. For example, this process helped to attain its political aim in Iraq. For example, even though airpower failed to achieve ground force invasion and coercive diplomacy, it succeeded in adapting different and shifting varying political objectives in different U.S. presidential administrations....