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Giulio Douhet
Italian general and air power theorist
General Giulio Douhet (30 May 1869 – 15 February 1930) was an Italiangeneral 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.
Biography
Born in Caserta, Campania, Italy, from a family of Savoyard exiles who had migrated there after the cession of Savoy to France[2] he attended the Military Academy of Modena and was commissioned into the artillery of the Italian Army in 1882.[2] Later he attended the Polytechnic Institute in Turin where he studied science and engineering.[3]
Assigned to the General Staff, after the beginning of the new century, Douhet published lectures on military mechanization.[4]: 2 With the arrival of dirigibles and then fixed-wing aircraft in Italy, he quickly recognized the military potent