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8 ai r p o w e r in 20 t H Ce n t u ry do C t r i n e s a n d em p l o y m e n t - nat i o n a l ex p e r i e n C e s trapposizione Est-Ovest, il potere aereo ha infatti conosciuto, per adattarsi ai nuovi ambienti operativi (Golfo, ex Jugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, ecc.), nuove e più articolate formulazioni, allargando i propri orizzonti, tanto da doversi parlare oggi, più correttamente, di “potere aerospaziale”. Sono sicuro che questo numero della Rivista internazionale di storia militare non dia solo la possibilità di conoscere pagine significative della storia del XX secolo, ma costituisca anche un utile strumento per meglio comprendere gli sviluppi degli attuali scenari strategici. Il volume, impreziosito dalla presentazione del Gen. Vincenzo Camporini, Capo di Stato Maggiore della Difesa nel periodo in cui fu dato mandato alla CISM di sviluppare questo progetto, valorizzato scientificamente dall’introduzione del Prof. Massimo de Leonardis, Vice Presidente della ICHM e Segretario Generale della CISM, arricchito graficamente da una sovra copertina che ritrae il dipinto di A. G. Ambrosi “Guerra nel cielo” del 1942 custodito presso il Museo dell’Aeronautica Gianni Caproni di Trento, rappresenta un valido esempio di efficace collaborazione internazionale in ambito interforze ed interuniversitario nel realizzare un’opera su un tema di grande interesse come il potere aereo.
Mat t e o Pa e s a n o 1 * A irplanes were first used in an actual war just one hundred years ago, during the conflict that opposed Italy to the Ottoman Empire ending with the conquest of Libya. Not even eight years after the historic first flight at Kitty Hawk, the invention of the Wright Brothers was introduced into modern warfare, bringing about a dramatic change, as confirmed by the subsequent events of World War I. In addiction to this, the Italian General Giulio Douhet was the first to understand and theorize, at the beginning of the XX Century, the strategic and fundamental role of Air force would play in the coming wars. Given this kind of double Italian primacy it was quite obvious for the International Commission of Military History (ICMH) to task the Italian Commission of Military History (CISM) with publishing a monographic issue of its Review completely devoted to air power in the XX century. The prompt and eager support expressed by individual National Commissions, that I would like to thank most warmly for their cooperation, besides being a clear evidence of the fruitful international cooperation in the study and analysis of military history, gave us the opportunity to bring together quite a number of high ranking scholars. In their essays they have illustrated various experiences and concepts on the matter of air power, as they took place and developed in individual countries during the last century. To this regard, it is a great pleasure for me to stress how various scholars have recognised the pivotal role played by Giulio Douhet in the development of modern military thought. In this context the Italian Commission of Military History, in cooperation with the Air Force Historical Studies Branch, whose personnel have commendably edited this work, and under the supervision of Professor Massimo de Leonardis, has now the opportunity and the honour to issue a deep and extensive work on this subject, drawing a comprehensive analysis of a very important historical and military event, i.e. the operational employment of air power. Now that the unyielding confrontation between the Eastern and the Western blocks is part of history, in order to adapt itself to new operational environments (Gulf, former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.), air power had to change accordingly and extend its scope to a point that, today, it would be more correct to identify it as “aerospace power”. I am convinced that this issue of the International Review of Military History is not only an opportunity to know some important events of the *1 Col. E.I., President CISM. 9
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