By Thomas Hippler
Charts how Giulio Douhet's pioneering technique of focusing on civilian populations with air energy built from 1884 to global battle II.
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However, his life and thought have received remarkably little scholarly attention. D. dissertation, ‘The Life and Thought of Giulio Douhet’ (1967), which provides a useful biographical overview. As for Italian secondary sources, there are scattered pieces of information, mostly in introductions to editions of Douhet’s works. 2 As for Douhet’s works, very little of his prolific output has been translated. 4 Among the more recent secondary literature in English, a 2005 article by Michael Pixley 1 A.
This current quite clearly emerged from 1906 onwards: we will try to outline its general features through two articles published by artillery officer Guido Castagneris. The first of these studies, published as ‘La navigazione aerea e la guerra’ (‘Air Navigation and War’) in the literary and political review Nuova antologia, actually already contained many distinctive features of the future discussions about air power, like the effects of air warfare on morale, the necessity of combat in the air, the use of anti-aerial artillery, the impact of international law, the arms race in the field of aviation and the thesis of the aeroplane as economic weapon, in terms of both finance and human lives.
IV, 514–22; translated into English as History of the Art of War within the Framework of Political History, trans. , Vol. IV: The Modern Era (Westpoint, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975), 439–44. 27 If the Japanese controlled the Yellow Sea, the Russian strategic disadvantage would be sharpened by the fact that their own supplies entirely depended on the limited capacities of the Trans- Siberian railways. 29 It is no exaggeration to state that these comments on a war that occurred before the advent of air power contain nevertheless some of the basic features of Douhet’s later thinking on the importance of air power in modern wars, and this in several respects.