from Part IV - The Insurrection of the Operational Artists
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2021
Chapter 10 analyzes the thinking of John Warden. It describes his life and his America, which transitioned from malaise to rebirth. Warden saw enemies as integrated but targetable systems. His theories set the stage for twenty-first century airpower theorists who would build on his model of war’s nature, which was materialist because it assumed one’s will to fight could be diminished, if not completely reduced, by attacking one’s material capacity to resist.
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