The command of the air / Giulio Douhet ; translated by Dino Ferrari ; edited by Joseph Patrick Harahan and Richard H. Kohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Douhet, Giulio

Series:

Fire ant books.

Fire ant books

Standardized Title:

Dominio dell'aria. English

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic Books

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Al University of Alabama Press 2009

Summary:

The Italian General Giulio Douhet reigns as one of the twentieth century's foremost strategic air power theorists. As such scholars as Raymond Flugel have pointed out, Douhet's theories were crucial at a pivotal pre-World War II Army Air Force institution, the Air Corps Tactical School.

Contents:

Book One: The Command of The Air; Part I; I. The New Form of War; II. The Independent Air Force; III. Aerial Warfare; IV. The Organization of Aerial Warfare; Part II; Book Two: The Probable Aspects of The War of The Future; Book Three: Recapitulation; Introduction; I. Auxiliary Aviation; II. Aerial Defense; III. The Aerial Battle; IV. The Aerial Field As the Decisive Field; Book Four: The War of 19; Part I; Introduction; I. The Causes of the Conflict; II. The Moral Preparation; III. The Intellectual Preparation; IV. The Material Preparation France and Belgium. V. The Material Preparation GermanyPart II; VI. The Allies' Plan of Operation; VII. Germany's Plan of Operation; VIII. The Battle of June 16; IX. Operations of June 17

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Coward-McCann, 1942.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8173-8325-5

OCLC:

772845386