Afghanistan invasion 2001.
The concept's description does indeed sound conspicuously like the British aerial 'policing' over Iraq around 1930, though.
The idea of running a small war with the air force is q highly questionable one. Air force and even more so naval air operations are insanely expensive (especially if you don't want to have troops in the country to run and guard bases and supply convoys). Small wars' utility is rather small, so the means employed should have rather low variable costs.
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