the part of a political campaign that is conducted over the radio and television airwaves by senior politicians
Compare ground war
air war in American English
noun
1.
military operations by combatants involving the use of aircraft
2.
those phases or aspects of a war in which aircraft play a part
Word origin
[1910–15]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: flashback, functionalism, grass roots, isotope, radio
Examples of 'air war' in a sentence
air war
The air war has lacked concentrated force.
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From 1916 the air war became a seesaw struggle for supremacy.
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This was to prove the shape of the air war to come.
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That means intensifying the air war from its present pinpricks.
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No one conceived that an air war was possible.
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This observation will raise a wintry smile among veteran air-war historians, all too familiar with the unreliable nature of collective memory.
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It also has a 25-week air war course for senior commanders and staff officers.
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There is always a disparity between what, in the vernacular, the professionals call the 'ground war' and the 'air war'.