John Warden and the renaissance of American air power / John Andreas Olsen

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Contents: Foreword / Phillip S. Meilinger -- Preface -- Introduction: the power of ideas -- 1. Origins: the early years -- 2. Learning to fly: from the Air Force Academy to Spain -- 3. The making of a strategic thinker -- 4. Operational assignments -- 5. The art of air warfare: the air campaign -- 6. Wing commander: ninety-three initiatives -- 7. Air power theory: creation, loss, and recovery -- 8. Instant thunder: victory through air power -- 9. Checkmate: support to the military campaign -- 10. Checkmate: support to the political campaign -- 11. Transforming the Air Command and Staff College -- 12. A farewell to arms -- Perspectives: the intellectual warrior -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. "Instant thunder" -- Appendix 2. "CENTCOM air campaign plan."

2007

C2007

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