John Ashley Warden III

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John Ashley Warden III (1994)

John Ashley Warden III (born December 21, 1943 in McKinney , Texas ) is a Colonel a. D. The United States Air Force and theoretician of air warfare and modern warfare.

Life

John A. Warden III earned his Bachelor of Science degree with a major in National Security Affairs from Air Force Academy in 1965 and a masters degree from Texas Tech University in 1975. He married Marjorie Ann Clarke in 1965 and was born on May 5th. December 1966 father of twins Kathleen Elizabeth and John Warden IV.

In April 1967, Warden was a member of the 334th Tactical Fighter Squadron and had a first mission in South Korea with the F-4 Phantom II in response to the Pueblo incident . In 1969, Captain Warden volunteered for service in the Republic of Vietnam. He flew the Rockwell OV-10 as a forward air controller .

Five-ring model

Diagram of the five rings of Warden

Warden gained fame through the "model of the five rings" (Warden's Five Rings) , which established a gradual destruction of the opposing structures. The opposing structures are arranged in a ring in his model and should be smashed from the inside out. The five rings included:

  • Political and military leadership in the center
  • Key industry with electricity and water supply, petrochemical and heavy industry, raw material processing, financial sector
  • Transport infrastructure (roads, bridges, train stations, airports, car industry, communication)
  • Civilian population
  • military

The model has been criticized, among other things, because it gives the civilian population a higher target priority over military infrastructures.

See also

Web links

  • Spencer C. Tucker (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts . The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts (= Priscilla Mary Roberts [Hrsg.]: The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars ). ABC-CLIO, 2010, ISBN 978-1-85109-948-1 , p. 1412 ff . (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Andreas Olsen: John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power . 1st edition. Potomac Books, Inc., Washington, DC 2011, ISBN 978-1-59797-323-6 , pp. 30 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Warden, John Ashley III
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warden, John A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American colonel and theorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH McKinney , Texas