The Air Campaign: John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists

In light of the age-old belief of Confucius that no idea is new Dr. Mets examines the role of Colonel Warden in the Gulf War to determine if a revolution in military affairs had occurred. He relies on several twentieth-century antecedents to Warden including Giulio Douhet Hugh Trenchard and Billy Mitchell to distill a pattern. Mets also addresses whether the argument that antedated the Gulf War to the effect that such conflicts between states using conventional weapons and methods are a pressing phenomenon. Chapter 6 the concluding chapter provides an overview of Metss discussion.