PAVE NAIL: There at the Beginning of the Precision Weapons Revolutions (Essay‪)‬

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The images are all too common now. A target is designated with a set of cross hairs, and a guided smart weapon destroys it in a blinding flash. Today, U.S. air power engages primarily with precision weapons. In the initial campaign of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 68 percent of all aerial weapons used were precision weapons. (1)