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Choose to write an academic essay on either Topic One or Topic Two, following the instructions outlined below. Topic One: Colonel John A Warden III (USAF Retd) is a modern air power theorist who claims that air power has fundamentally changed the very nature of war. His “Warden’s Rings” model for prioritising targets claims to be based on the expected best effect from the applied air power, or the ‘return on investment for stores expended’ In your essay CONSIDER (20%) Warden’s model and, using it as a template, EVALUATE (80%) its appropriateness using any air power campaign since 1989. Or Topic Two: The Pacific Air War – 7th December 1941 to 9th August 1945 – The war in the Pacific against Japan was essentially the first ‘air war’ where Allied strategic policy was based on gaining air supremacy in order to bypass Japanese occupied areas and gain ‘landing strips’ from which to attack Japan. This included naval operations where aircraft carriers replaced battleships as the ‘capital’ ships of the fleets. In your essay, using examples from air battles or campaigns of the Pacific War to ILLUSTRATE your discussion, DESCRIBE how the Allies used air power and its characteristics to defeat the Japanese. [Remember the word count, the Pacific War covered vast distances over a number of years and involved many battles and campaigns, so you may need to narrow your focus to particular battle(s) /campaigns to get sufficient substance into your essay]. Instructions You are required to: 1. Review relevant readings/study items provided in this course. 2. Search for further information through the resources of the library and/or academic search engines such as google scholar. You are to include these findings in your essay. 3. Produce a 2000 word essay. This limit will be strictly observed (assignments more than 10% over the word limit will be penalised). Please note that this limit does not include references or appendices. While assignments below the word count will not be penalised, it is important that students have taken every opportunity to be awarded marks (i.e. don’t make the essay short at the expense of important discussion). 4. Demonstrate accurate use of American Psychological Association (APA) 6 format for citations and references. Please note that you must provide both in-text citations and a reference list. Readings attached!!