From the "air power cannot do it alone" files, political science professor Robert A. Pape has just published an opinion piece in the the New York Times arguing, you guessed it, that military success only really comes when "air power [is] used in conjunction with ground forces, like a hammer and anvil."

I confess I don't find this debate especially interesting, but I do find amusing that Pape and the Times are flogging what is, in this Gulf war at least, a dead horse. After all no one is really arguing it can be won by air power alone.