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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

    $32.99 USD

  • Body and Earth

    An Experiential Guide

    by Andrea Olsen, Bill McKibben ...
    "Body is our first environment," writes Andrea Olsen. "It is the medium through which we know the earth." In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Olsen, a dancer who teaches in the environmental studies program at Middlebury College, offers a guide to a holistic understanding of person and place. Part workbook, part exploration, Body and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $27.99 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

  • 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

  • John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power

    by John Andreas Olsen ...
    ****Included on the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force's reading list for 2008 and the Royal Air Force's Centre for Air Power Studies 2008 Reading List****Dr. John Andreas Olsen has written an insightful, compelling biography of retired U.S. Air Force colonel John A. Warden III, the brilliant but controversial air warfare t... ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • Air Commanders

    by 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 recently retired general T. Michael Buzz Moseley, the case studies illuminate the character of ... Read more

    $35.00 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

    $72.99 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

    $91.99 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

    $60.99 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

    $60.99 USD

  • NATO and the North Atlantic

    Revitalising Collective Defence

    Edited by John Andreas Olsen ...
    Series series Whitehall Papers
    The book analyses the renewed importance of the North Atlantic for NATO in the face of new security challengesThis Whitehall Paper explores the renewed importance of the North Atlantic Ocean to NATO‘s security through the lenses of the United States, United Kingdom and Norway in particular. These three NATO members form the territorial rim around the North Atlantic and its peripheral seas. All are ... Read more

    $66.99 USD