Bøger af John Andreas Olsen

Air Commanders combines short military biographies and operational analyses to reveal how the personalities, attitudes, and life experiences of twelve outstanding U.S. airmen shaped the central air campaigns in American history. From Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, who began his career in World War I, to the contemporary Gen. T.

Dr. John Andreas Olsen has written an insightful, compelling biography of retired US 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.

What influences have shaped air power since human flight became a reality more than a hundred years ago? Global Air Power provides insight into the evolution of air power theory and practice by examining the experience of six of the world's largest air forces-those of the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, Russia, India, and China-and ...

This work provides a coherent and comprehensive examination of the origins, evolution and implementation of "Operation Desert Storm."

This paper illustrates the consensus among northern NATO members on the need for Visible Assurance of states bordering Russia, as well as for solidarity, and a build-up of capabilities to defend NATO territory.

An overview of air power's history and effectiveness, by the top experts in the field