The Air Campaign

John Warden wrote The Air Campaign in 1986 while attending the National War College. During his career he developed a method to simplify analysis of complex organizations articulated the radically new concept of parallel war created an extremely new educational system and synthesized a powerful new approach to business strategy. In addition to being a theorist however he has had major successes in the real world of war politics education and business: Generals Schwarzkopf and Powell credited him with creating the air campaign that defeated Iraq in the Gulf War. He retired as a colonel from the United States Air Force and is now the President of Venturist Inc. a strategy consulting and computer based training development company.