Our new strategic vision will also help us communicate the unique capabilities air power provides the nation through the ability to exploit air and space and gain powerful advantages in time, mass, position, and awareness. Part of the problem in the past was that while we had developed a clear vision of what air power could do, it was never easy to describe and analyze how air power acts. In 1956, General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered this insightful and compelling assessment of air power when he said: "Air power has become predominant. . . both as a deterrent to war, and in the eventuality of war, as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermining his will to wage war.