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Author : United States. Air Force ROTC.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Air power
ISBN : UVA:X000681766
Author : United States. Air Force ROTC.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015022453164
Author : General Giulio Douhet
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782898528
In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.
Author : Barry D. Watts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : 1585660078
Author : Thomas Hippler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107037946
Giulio Douhet is generally considered the world's most important air-power theorist and this book offers the first comprehensive account of his air-power concepts. It ranges from 1884 when an air service was first implemented within the Italian military to the outbreak of the Second World War, and explores the evolution and dissemination of Douhet's ideas in an international context. It examines the impact of the Libyan war, the First World War and Ethiopian war on the development of Italian air-power strategy. It also addresses the issue of Douhet's advocacy of strategic bombing, exploring why it was that Douhet became an advocate of city bombing; the meaning and the limits of his core concept of 'command of the air'; and the mutual impact of air power, military and naval thought. It also takes into account alternatives to Douhetism such as the theories developed by Amedeo Mecozzi and others.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : LCCN:59060679
Author : Mark Clodfelter
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803234499
The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movementto reform war by relying on destructive technology as the instrument of change. InBeneficial BombingMark Clodfelter describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I's trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas of efficiency and economy in an effort to reform war itself, with the heavy bomber as their solution to limiting the bloodshed. They were convinced that the airplane, used as a bombing platform, offered the means to make wars less lethal than conflicts waged by armies or navies. Clodfelter examines the progressive idealism that led to the creation of the U.S. Air Force and its doctrine that the finite destruction of precision bombing would end wars more quickly and with less suffering foreachbelligerent. What is more, his work shows how these progressive ideas emerged intact after World War II to become the foundation of modern U.S. Air Force doctrine. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, including critical documents unavailable to previous researchers, Clodfelter presents the most complete analysis ever of the doctrinal development underpinning current U.S. Air Force notions about strategic bombing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113214121
Author : Ryan Burke,Michael Fowler,Jahara Matisek
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Air power
ISBN : 9781647122508
This second edition of Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower introduces contemporary strategy at the operational level of war. Developed as foundational reading for all US Air Force Academy cadets, this textbook is designed to close the gap between military theory and practice.
Author : Phil Haun
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813176796
Following the cataclysmic losses suffered in World War I, air power theorists in Europe advocated for long-range bombers to overfly the trenches and strike deep into the enemy's heartland. The bombing of cities was seen as a means to collapse the enemy's will to resist and bring the war to a quick end. In the United States, airmen called for an independent air force, but with the nation's return to isolationism, there was little appetite for an offensive air power doctrine. By the 1930s, however, a cadre of officers at the US Army Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS) had articulated an operational concept of high-altitude daylight precision bombing (HADPB) that would be the foundation for a uniquely American vision of strategic air attack. In Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II editor Phil Haun brings together nine ACTS lecture transcripts, which have been preserved in Air Force archives, exactly as delivered to the airmen destined to lead the US Army Air Forces in World War II. Presented is a distinctive American strategy of high-altitude daylight precision bombing as told through lectures given at the ACTS during the interwar period and how these airmen put the theory to the test. The book examines the Air Corps theory of HADPB as compared to the reality of combat in World War II by relying on recent, revisionist histories that have given scholars a deeper understanding of the impact of strategic bombing on Germany.
Author : Robert A. Pape
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801471506
From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer. Analyzing the results of over thirty air campaigns, including a detailed reconstruction of the Gulf War, he argues that the key to success is attacking the enemy's military strategy, not its economy, people, or leaders. Coercive air power can succeed, but not as cheaply as air enthusiasts would like to believe.Pape examines the air raids on Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq as well as those of Israel versus Egypt, providing details of bombing and governmental decision making. His detailed narratives of the strategic effectiveness of bombing range from the classical cases of World War II to an extraordinary reconstruction of airpower use in the Gulf War, based on recently declassified documents. In this now-classic work of the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert A. Pape helps military strategists and policy makers judge the purpose of various air strategies, and helps general readers understand the policy debates.
Author : Herman C. Hupperich,Raymond R. Flugel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494088207
This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.
Author : United States Air Force Rotc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258229595
Author : John Andreas Olsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351802734
The Routledge Handbook of Air Power offers a comprehensive overview of the political purposes and military importance of air power. Despite its increasing significance in international relations, statecraft and war, the phenomenon of air power remains controversial and little understood beyond its tactical and technological prominence. This volume provides a comprehensive survey designed to contribute to a deep and sophisticated understanding of air power. Containing contributions from academics and service personnel, the book comprises five sections: - Part I Foundation: the essence of air power - Part II Roles and functions: delivering air power - Part III Cross-domain integration: applying air power - Part IV Political–social–economic environment: air power in its strategic context - Part V Case studies: air power in its national context Examining a series of themes and factors that contribute to an understanding of the utility and applicability of air power, this Handbook focuses on the essence of air power, identifies its roles and functions, and places air power in its wider strategic and national contexts. The Routledge Handbook of Air Power will be of great interest to students of air power, strategic studies, defence studies, security studies and IR, as well as to military professionals and policy-makers.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781428915855
