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Giulio Douhet
Born
(1869-05-30)30 May 1869
Caserta, Campania, Italy
Died
15 February 1930(1930-02-15) (aged 60)
Rome, Italy
Nationality
Italian
Known for
Airpower theories, a key proponent of strategic bombing
General Giulio Douhet (30 May 1869 – 15 February 1930) was an Italian general and air power theorist.[1] He was a key proponent of strategic bombing in aerial warfare. He was a contemporary of the air warfare advocates Walther Wever, Billy Mitchell, and Hugh Trenchard.
^Garrett, Stephen A. (1997). "Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War. By Robert A. Pape. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. 366p. 19.95 paper". American Political Science Review. 91 (2): 506–507. doi:10.2307/2952442. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 2952442. S2CID 147348984.
General GiulioDouhet (30 May 1869 – 15 February 1930) was an Italian general and air power theorist. He was a key proponent of strategic bombing in aerial...
theorists of strategic air warfare during this period were the Italian GiulioDouhet, the Trenchard school in the United Kingdom, and General Billy Mitchell...
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role, Bastico was a target of GiulioDouhet in Recapitulation (published with the work The Command of the Air). Douhet devotes many pages to critically...
advocates of strategic bombing during the interwar period, such as Italy's GiulioDouhet, America's Billy Mitchell, and Britain's Hugh Trenchard, had commanded...
World Wars have spurred strategic thinkers such as Mahan, Corbett, GiulioDouhet, Liddell Hart and, later, André Beaufre. The Cold War with its danger...
complex. Significant contributors to theorizing about air power have been GiulioDouhet, Billy Mitchell, John Boyd and John A. Warden III. At the start of World...
the most vital. In the 1920s and 1930s, airpower theorists such as GiulioDouhet and Billy Mitchell claimed that air forces could win wars, obviating...
first proposed by the Italian theorist General GiulioDouhet. In his book The Command of the Air (1921), Douhet argued future military leaders could avoid...
Lebanon Maria Valtorta, Italian writer Toni Servillo, Italian actor GiulioDouhet, air power theorist English cricketer Hedley Verity is buried there...
the torpedo as a weapon. In 1921 the Italian general and air theorist GiulioDouhet completed a hugely influential treatise on strategic bombing titled...
world's foremost theorists about the future of military aviation, GiulioDouhet; Douhet also had a practical side, as he was largely responsible for the...
Lufthansa, was a prominent theorist of air power. Knauss promoted the GiulioDouhet theory that air power could win wars alone by destroying enemy industry...
"weaken the morale of the Reds". Mussolini, like the Italian general GiulioDouhet, believed that aircraft could win a war through strategic bombing (also...
military and industrial capability from the air. The Italian general GiulioDouhet, author of The Command of the Air, was a seminal theorist of that school...
Martin van Creveld – expanded theory of war proponent Arthur Currie GiulioDouhet Mikhail Dragomirov – Russian military theoretician Pierre Emmanuel Albert...
toys, but weapons in the making. In 1909, the Italian staff officer GiulioDouhet remarked: The sky is about to become another battlefield no less important...
viable and needed to end. In 1921, Italian aerial warfare theorist GiulioDouhet published The Command of the Air, a book positing that future wars would...
statue of goddess Roma after World War I following an idea of General GiulioDouhet. The body of the unknown soldier was chosen on 28 October 1921 from...
Protection Platoon) Scuola Militare Aeronautica GiulioDouhet (Military Aeronautical High School GiulioDouhet), in Florence Scuola Marescialli Aeronautica...
events the Brazilian strategists were also influenced by the theories of GiulioDouhet, Billy Mitchell and Hugh Montague Trenchard.[citation needed] The first...
arguments, such as those advanced by Italian general and air power theorist GiulioDouhet, do not appear to violate any of the convention's provisions. Due to...
Hugh Trenchard, was among the military strategists in the 1920s, like GiulioDouhet, who saw air warfare as a new way to overcome the bloody stalemate of...
Pantano edited a volume of GiulioDouhet's writings, Le profezie di Cassandra: raccolta di scritti del generale GiulioDouhet (Genoa, 1931). In some places...
Mitchell met the Italian air power theorist GiulioDouhet and soon afterwards an excerpted translation of Douhet's The Command of the Air began to circulate...
enemy-held territory. This theory was first espoused by Italian General GiulioDouhet, though his ideas included the terror bombing of population centers...
“Francesco Morosini” Scuola militare teuliè Scuola aeronautica militare “GiulioDouhet” "Fork Union Military Academy". Fork Union Military Academy. "Hargrave...
standards of most powers. The VVS was also profoundly influenced by GiulioDouhet, and the theory of air power that was focused on the offensive, and...