Several reasons have been suggested for the failure of the German air offensive.

Taking control of the airport would weaken the government's air offensive.

So far the war's great unknown is the impact of the allied air offensive on Iraq's main ground forces.

They had not been able to get airborne in time to do anything but watch as the entire Russian air offensive seemed to destroy itself.

The air offensive, they hoped, would be enough to convince the British to sue for peace.

Open warfare began with a Soviet air offensive on 25 June.

Official sources later confirmed that these aircraft had immediately joined the air offensive against Iraq.

"Do you find the fresh air offensive, then?"

Fighting continued on the ground on Monday despite the continued air offensive.

As a result, Iran was virtually unable to launch any major offensives (other than the air offensive).

After this there was a pause in the air offensive, as the official despatch states:

He continued to score consistently through the summer air offensives and shot down seven Soviet aircraft on 8 May.

Therefore the first phase of the German air offensive took place over the English Channel.

An air offensive followed by ground forces destroyed the capital, Grozny, and created hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Whirlwind was the name for what everyone believed would be a one-shot air offensive against selected Luftwaffe bases.

During the first three weeks of the air offensive, F-117As obliterated many hardened targets with unprecedented precision.

Fortunately for England the ammunition and flyers were available by 1916 when the Germans launched their air offensive.

In the initial hours of the bombing, Defense Department officials and even some military officers hinted that the air offensive could be over within a week.

The attack was due to start immediately, but bad weather delayed the German air offensive against Britain until 12 August.

Because of this, the initial air offensive against Finland could not be followed by a supporting land offensive on the scale originally planned.

He became Director Air Offensive at the Ministry of Defence in 1989.

Slessor was closely involved in planning the combined Allied air offensive in Europe.

The air offensive continued throughout the ground invasion that followed, and as of January 15, Israeli forces had carried out 2,360 air strikes.

A classic example of the Government's muddled thinking on defence is Britain's contribution to the air offensive in Libya.