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  • Victory Through Airpower

    General Chuck Horner and Operation Desert Storm

    by John Andreas Olsen ...
    Series series History of Military Aviation
    This compelling biography chronicles the life and leadership of General Chuck Horner, mastermind of the Gulf War’s revolutionary air campaign. Drawing on exclusive interviews and newly uncovered sources, it offers a powerful study in airpower, strategy, and the enduring principles of effective command.Victory Through Airpower deftly combines biography and operational history to explore the life ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • A History of Air Warfare

    by Edited by John Andreas Olsen ...
    This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century. Comprising sixteen essays penned by a global cadre of leading military experts, A History of Air Warfare chronologically examines the utility of air power from the First World War to the second Lebanon war, campaign by campaign. Each essay lays out the ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Airpower Pioneers

    From Billy Mitchell to Dave Deptula

    Edited by John Andreas Olsen ...
    Series series History of Military Aviation
    Airpower Pioneers studies twelve especially influential airmen, detailing their impact on the evolution of the United States Air Force (USAF). Rather than focus on command in a series of air campaigns, this book describes the personal qualities and careers of people who distinguished themselves first and foremost by advancing airpower theory, doctrine, and strategy, and in certain cases by ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Airpower Reborn

    The Strategic Concepts of John Warden and John Boyd

    Edited by John Andreas Olsen ...
    Series series History of Military Aviation
    Airpower Reborn offers a conceptual approach to warfare that emphasizes airpower's unique capability to achieve strategic effects. Six world-leading theorists argue that a viable strategy must transcend the purely military sphere, view the adversary as a multi-dimensional system, and pursue systemic paralysis and strategic effects rather than military destruction or attrition. The book is divided ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Airpower Applied

    U.S., NATO, and Israeli Combat Experience

    Edited by John Andreas Olsen ...
    Series series History of Military Aviation
    Airpower Applied reviews the evolution of airpower and its impact on the history of warfare. Through a critical examination of twenty-nine case studies in which various U.S. coalitions and Israel played significant roles, this book offers perspectives on the political purpose, strategic meaning, and military importance of airpower. By comparing and contrasting more than seventy-five years of ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Destination NATO

    Defence Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2003–13

    by Rohan Maxwell, John Andreas Olsen ...
    Series series Whitehall Papers
    Defence reform has been a major component of Bosnia’s stabilisation and nation-building. Though true for many cases of post-conflict transition, it is especially so for Bosnia, which arguably has the most complex state structure in Europe. Ten years on from the start of Bosnia’s defence-reform process, Destination NATO records and reviews the Bosnian experience of defence reform. The monograph ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of NATO

    Edited by John Andreas Olsen ...
    This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the development and importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), its role in international relations and its influence on history.The volume examines the Alliance’s evolution in breadth, depth and context by analysing and explaining why and how NATO has endured and remained relevant since its creation. To present an inclusive study ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Operational Art

    From Napoleon to the Present

    Edited by John Andreas Olsen, Martin van Creveld ...
    Broadly defined as the grey area between strategy and tactics, operational art spans the theory and practice of planning and conducting campaigns and major operations aimed at accomplishing strategic and operational objectives in a given theatre of operations. An intermediate link between strategy and tactics has always existed, but a distinct concept that encompasses a systematic and deliberate ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Future NATO

    Adapting to New Realities

    Edited by John Andreas Olsen ...
    Series series Whitehall Papers
    Future NATO looks at the challenges facing NATO in the 21st century and examines how the Alliance can adapt to ensure its continued successFor more than 70 years, the North Atlantic Alliance has helped to preserve peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area. It has been able to adjust to varying political and strategic challenges. We must ensure that NATO continues to be effective in the future. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Security in Northern Europe

    Deterrence, Defence and Dialogue

    Edited by John Andreas Olsen ...
    Series series Whitehall Papers
    NATO’s Northern members are increasingly concerned about Russia’s military activities. This Whitehall Paper contains perspectives from prominent authors across the region, showing how member states are responding, individually and collectively, to Moscow’s resurgence. Overall, it identifies the common but differentiated responsibility that member states have for security in the Alliance’s northern ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm

    by John Andreas Olsen ...
    Series series Studies in Air Power
    In response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on the second of August 1990, a small group of air power advocates in the Pentagon proposed a strategic air campaign - "Operation Desert Storm" designed to drive the Iraqi army from Kuwait by a sustained effort against the major sources of Iraqi national power. John Andreas Olsen provides a coherent and comprehensive examination of the origins, evolution ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Global Air Power

    by Edited by John Andreas Olsen ...
    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 worlds largest air forcesthose of the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, Russia, India, and Chinaand of representative smaller air forces in Pacific Asia, ... Read more

    $35.00 USD