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Airpower reborn : the strategic concepts of John Warden and John Boyd / edited by John Andreas Olsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The History of Military Aviation Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Air power.
- Air warfare.
- Strategy.
- Boyd, John R., 1927-1997--Influence.
- Boyd, John R.
- Warden, John A., 1943---Influence.
- Warden, John A.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Airpower Reborn offers a conceptual approach to warfare that emphasizes airpower's unique capability to achieve strategic effects. Six world-leading theorists argue that a viable strategy must transcend the purely military sphere, view the adversary as a multi-dimensional system, and pursue systemic paralysis and strategic effects rather than military destruction or attrition.The book is divided into three parts. The first section presents a historical perspective on airpower theory and airpower strategy, tracing their evolution from the 1920s to the 1980s. The second section contains in-depth
- Contents:
- Introduction: airpower and strategy / John Andreas Olsen
- Paradigm lost: airpower theory and its historical struggles / Peter Faber
- The enemy as a complex adaptive system: John Boyd and airpower in the postmodern era / Frans Osinga
- Smart strategy, smart airpower / John A. Warden III
- Fifth-generation strategy / Alan Stephens
- Airpower theory / Colin S. Gray.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61251-806-0
- OCLC:
- 897946631
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