Books by John Andreas Olsen

Dr. John Andreas Olsen has written an insightful, compelling biography of retired US Air Force colonel John A. Warden III, the brilliant but controversial air warfare theorist and architect of Operation Desert Storm's air campaign. Warden's radical ideas about air power's purposes and applications, promulgated at the expense of his own career, sparked the ongoing revolution in military affairs.

This paper illustrates the consensus among northern NATO members on the need for Visible Assurance of states bordering Russia, as well as for solidarity, and a build-up of capabilities to defend NATO territory.

This work provides a coherent and comprehensive examination of the origins, evolution and implementation of "Operation Desert Storm."