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UNINA9910788152403321 |
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Titolo |
Airpower reborn : the strategic concepts of John Warden and John Boyd / / edited by John Andreas Olsen |
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Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Collana |
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The History of Military Aviation Series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Air power |
Air warfare |
Strategy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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