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

• Pubblicazione: Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 358.4/03
• Soggetto topico: Air power; Air warfare; Strategy
• Persona (resp. second.): OlsenJohn Andreas <1968->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Airpower reborn
• ISBN: 1-61251-806-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788152403321
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