Giulio Douhet Essays

  • Transformational Leadership

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    Works Cited John J. Sosik and Don I. Jung, Full Range Leadership Development: Pathways for People, Profit, and Plant (New York: Psychology Press, 2010), 14. William D. O’Neil, “Transformation” (Annapolis: US Naval Institute, 2002), 1. Ibid., 2. Giulio Douhet, The Command of the Air (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1998), 30. Alfred F. Hurley, Billy Mitchell: Crusader for Air Power (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 61. Edgar H. Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership

  • Strategic Bombing Accroding to Trenchard, Douhet, and Gorrell

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    visualize air supremacy during World War I and World War II. Strategic bombing is defined as “striking deep into enemy territory to destroy war-making capabilities.” Many theorists speculated different ideas on strategic bombing, including Trenchard, Douhet, and Gorrell. Trenchard’s strategic bomb theory was to focus more on attacking German homelands and to target the enemy nation’s morale. Next, Douhet’s theory is based on Total War Concept and targeted German infrastructures. Lastly, Gorrell’s theory

  • Billy Mitchell: Father of the United States Airforce

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    Armies and Navies have clashed since antiquity, but the airplane that enables aerial combat is barely a century old. Airplanes saw widespread combat in the First World War, and, despite the doubts and financial concerns of military leaders of the time, the brave men who fly them have gained their own dedicated military division, the United States Air Force. Billy Mitchell, through his charisma and an image that endeared him in American culture, was an instrumental figure in developing the modern

  • Naturalism and the Venetian Poesia

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    that Campbell examines focuses on the nature of the works, such as the juxtaposition of “pagan opposites” in Christian subject matter, the idea of the gaze, juxtaposing two pictorial ... ... middle of paper ... ... the Durer landscapes seen in Giulio Campagnola’s Saturn. Campbell’s analysis of poesia is a strong illustration of the examination of works in the field of Art History. Art historians obviously study the physical marks and meanings of a piece of work, but also need to critically analyze

  • Analysis Of Carl Von Clausewitz's On War

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    conceptions, and even conjecture how best to terminate wars. Carl Von Clausewitz in his masterpiece ‘On War’ conceptualized the nature of war on land and linked relationship between warfare and politics in concise ideals. The visionary theorist Giulio Douhet shifted the view of war in 1921 when he published The Command of the Air, where he introduced war through the concepts of airpower. This essay aims to contrast the theories of Clausewitz’s conception of land warfare with Douhet’s conception of

  • The Pros And Cons Of Strategic Bombing

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    opposing governments; set-piece battle victories and the destruction of enemy material are merely a means to apply pressure on the opposing government to surrender. In the context of war being won through pressure being applied to the enemy government, Douhet believed that extended army and navy conflict and drawn out warfare was unnecessary, a waste of time, resources, and lives - he believed that the required pressure could be applied to the enemy government merely through the means of bombing enemy

  • On the Use of Military Theory

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    Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1989. He explains it in the first four paragraphs of his preface, p. 61. Julian Corbett. Principles of Maritime Strategy. Minneola, NY, Dover, 2004. Giulio Douhet. The Command of the Air. Edited by Joseph Patrick Harahan and Richard H. Kohn. Tuscaloosa, AL, The University of Alabama Press, 2009. Robert M. Citino. Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare. Lawrence, KS, University

  • Antoine Henri de Jomini vs Carl von Clausewitz

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    “Fundamental Principle of War”. So if one views their work collectively rather than as competitors, the two philosophies complement each other by addressing different segments of the spectrum of war. Works Cited Jomini, A., Lesson 3, Reading 1. Douhet, G., Lesson 3, Reading 2. Warden, J., Lesson 3, Reading 3. Bassford, C., Lesson 4, Reading 1. Beyerchen, A., Lesson 4, Reading 2. Sobchak, F., Lesson 4, Reading 3.