John Warden and the renaissance of American air power
Dr. John Andreas Olsen has written an insightful, compelling biography of retired U.S. Air Force colonel John A. Warden III, the brilliant but controversial air warfare theorist and architect of Operation Desert Storm's air campaign. Warden's radical ideas about air power's purposes a...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C
Potomac Books
2007
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| Summary: | Dr. John Andreas Olsen has written an insightful, compelling biography of retired U.S. Air Force colonel John A. Warden III, the brilliant but controversial air warfare theorist and architect of Operation Desert Storm's air campaign. Warden's radical ideas about air power's purposes and applications, promulgated at the expense of his own career, sparked the ongoing revolution in military affairs. Legendary in defense circles, Warden is also the author of The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat (republished by Brassey's, Inc. in 1989). Presenting both the positives and negatives of Warden's person |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 349 pages, [8] pages of plates illustrations 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781597970846 |