The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat Book

Serving as the basis for the planning of much of the Gulf War air campaign, The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat has been translated into more than a half dozen languages and is in use at military colleges throughout the world. One of the first analyses of the pure art of planning the aerial dimensions of war, it explores the complicated connection between air superiority and victory in war. Generals Schwarzkopf and Powell credit author Colonel John A. Warden with creating the air operation strategy central to Iraqâ??s defeat. This new edition includes an epilogue in which Colonel Warden refines and extends many of the ideas presented in the original publication. Warden proffers that the essence of strategic planning is to think deductively; deductive thinking is the power behind good strategists. The resulting model enables the strategists to analyze an adversary and ultimately understand his nature and objectives. Much like the world's greatest leaders have relied on Sun Tzuâ??s The Art of War for practical guidance, Wardenâ??s words can now also be applied to another kind of intense competition: the fast-changing world of 21st century business. Leaders and managers in any industry, corporate or military, can successfully apply Wardenâ??s theory to create a winning approach to strategy. "The Air Force staff quickly came up with an air campaign, the brainchild of Colonel John Warden, a leading Air Force intellectual on the use of airpower. Warden's original plan would undergo numerous modifications but his original concept remained the heart of the Desert Storm air war." â??Colin Powell, My American Journey "Warden and his team put together a remarkably good planâ?¦designed to cripple Iraq's military without laying waste to a country." â??General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Doesn't Take A HeroRead More