Air Campaign: John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists (Repost)
Air Campaign: John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists By David R. Mets
1999 | 97 Pages | ISBN: 1585660639 | PDF | 2 MB
1999 | 97 Pages | ISBN: 1585660639 | PDF | 2 MB
In light of the age-old belief of Confucius that no idea is new, Dr. Mets examines the role of Colonel Warden in the Gulf War to determine if a revolution in military affairs had occurred. He relies on several twentieth-century antecedents to Warden, including Giulio Douhet, Hugh Trenchard, and Billy Mitchell to distill a pattern. Mets also addresses whether "the argument that antedated the Gulf War to the effect that such conflicts between states using conventional weapons and methods are a pressing phenomenon."