1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200027573

Autore

Peyer, Hans Conrad

Titolo

Viaggiare nel Medioevo : dall'ospitalità alla locanda / Hans Conrad Peyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma ; Bari, : Laterza, 1990

ISBN

88-420-3661-7

Descrizione fisica

397 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Storia e società

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Traduzione di Nicola Antonacci

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788152403321

Titolo

Airpower reborn : the strategic concepts of John Warden and John Boyd / / edited by John Andreas Olsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61251-806-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

The History of Military Aviation Series

Disciplina

358.4/03

Soggetti

Air power

Air warfare

Strategy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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