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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828888503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Al, : University of Alabama Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8173-8325-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Collana

Fire ant books

Classificazione

355.469

Altri autori (Persone)

DouhetGiulio

Soggetti

Air power

Luftmagt

Luftstategi

Luftkrigsførelse

Electronic Books

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.