Mike Pavelec
Military historian and academic formerly at the US Air Command and Staff College and currently at McGill University, specializing in the history and theory of air power and author of works on American air power.
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Mar 10, 2026 • 45min
Can Air Power Alone Topple Governments?
Mike Pavelec, military historian at McGill who studies the history and theory of air power. He traces bombing from WWI Zeppelins to NATO in Kosovo. He contrasts strategic and tactical air power. He examines cases like Guernica, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Kosovo. He discusses drones, Russia–Ukraine and why air strikes can coerce but rarely create lasting political change.
