The USAF and Technological Asymmetry: A Critique of Current Air Power Theory and Doctrine.

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen S. Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Air Power ◽  
Power Theory

Air Power Theory

2018 ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Phillip S. Meilinger
Keyword(s):  
Air Power ◽  
Power Theory

Winged Victory: How the Great War Ended: The evolution of Giulio Douhet’s theory of strategic bombing

2021 ◽  
pp. 096834452110275
Author(s):  
Phil Haun
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Great War ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Power Theory ◽  
Strategic Bombing ◽  
Decisive Victory ◽  
The Great War

A war’s conclusion can impact strategic thinking even when the outcome is misinterpreted or an outlier. For a century, Giulio Douhet in Command of the Air, 1921 and a 1926 revision, has been the prophet for the utilitarian morality of bombing cities to gain decisive victory. His earlier work, Winged Victory: How the Great War Ended, written in 1918, has been ignored where he argued for the interdiction of enemy lines of communication. His theory changes by how the Great War ends with the collapse of the German population’s will. Had it ended differently, he could have reached a different conclusion that could have impacted the development of air power theory in the twentieth century.

The Icarus Syndrome: The Role of Air Power Theory in the Evolution and Fate of the U.S. Air Force

1994 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Eliot A. Cohen ◽  
Carl H. Builder
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Power Theory ◽  
The U.S
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