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John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power

John Andreas Olsen author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Potomac Books Inc

Published:1st Jun '07

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****Included on the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force's reading list for 2008 and the Royal Air Force's Centre for Air Power Studies 2008 Reading List****Dr. John Andreas Olsen has written an insightful, compelling biography of retired U.S. Air Force colonel John A. Warden III, the brilliant but controversial air warfare theorist and architect of Operation Desert Storm’s air campaign. Warden’s radical ideas about air power’s purposes and applications, promulgated at the expense of his own career, sparked the ongoing revolution in military affairs. Legendary in defense circles, Warden is also the author of The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat (republished by Brassey’s, Inc. in 1989). Presenting both the positives and negatives of Warden’s personality and impact in this objective portrait, Olsen offers a trenchant analysis of his revolutionary ideas and great accomplishments.

“This is a great book because it mixes human relations and career guidance with an overview of modern air power thinking . . . Olsen is to be commended on a fine piece of work.”—RUSI Journal
"This is a publication that pulls no punches and offers no apologies; instead it paints a remarkably honest portrait of one of the few original Air Power theorists in the latter half of the 20th century."—Spirit of the Air
“This is an extremely readable as well as revelatory book. Olsen avoids sensationalizing the fact that the coalition forces were bereft of a comprehensive plan for conducting the air war, and he presents both sides of the Warden argument with skill and sensitivity. John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power is a model not only for those writing about air power philosophy but for biographers in general.”—Aviation History
“This well-researched biography of Colonel John A. Warden III is an excellent summary of the ideas that made him the leading air power theorist in the U.S. Air Force in the second half of the twentieth century."—Journal of Military History
“Superbly written.”—Parameters
“Masterful . . . John Andreas Olsen has done an important service in bringing the story of this great airman to light.”—Phillip S. Meilinger, author of The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory

ISBN: 9781597970846

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 708g

374 pages