TY - BOOK AU - Olsen,John Andreas TI - John Warden and the renaissance of American air power SN - 1597970840 AV - UG626.2.W3685 O8 PY - 2007/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Potomac Books KW - Warden, John A., KW - United States KW - Air Force KW - Officers KW - Biography KW - Air power KW - Persian Gulf War, 1991 KW - Aerial operations, American KW - Biographies KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) and index; Foreword / Phillip S. Meilinger -- Preface -- Introduction: the power of ideas -- 1. Origins: the early years -- 2. Learning to fly: from the Air Force Academy to Spain -- 3. The making of a strategic thinker -- 4. Operational assignments -- 5. The art of air warfare: the air campaign -- 6. Wing commander: ninety-three initiatives -- 7. Air power theory: creation, loss, and recovery -- 8. Instant thunder: victory through air power -- 9. Checkmate: support to the military campaign -- 10. Checkmate: support to the political campaign -- 11. Transforming the Air Command and Staff College -- 12. A farewell to arms -- Perspectives: the intellectual warrior -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. "Instant thunder" -- Appendix 2. "CENTCOM air campaign plan." UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006028002.html ER -