Introduction
‘The future,’ as British physicist and posterior Nobel Prizer winner Dennis Gabor once said, ‘cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.’ (1964 p. 207). Indeed, over the past centuries warfare, parallel to the tactics, techniques, procedures and technology implemented have substantially evolved. Therefore, it could be argued that Sun Tzu, Machiavelli and Clausewitz would have been in difficulties envisag-ing drones, air-to-air refuelling, precision-guided munition or domains of cyber and space to be emerged. Behind all this, however, are people – practitioners, academ-ics and scholars – spending intellectual energy and ink while conducting a com-plete analysis of past wars and developing some hypothesis about future war. Theo-rists of German General Heinz Guderian and Italian General Giulio Douhet, as well as their treatises, serve as good examples of the latter. …show more content…
Explicitly, this essay examines the following central research questions: what major differences and similarities can be identified between two different views on the subject? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the vision? Finally, the main findings of the paper will be provided. This paper is supposed to demonstrate that, even though, not the representatives of the same branch, nor the same service, Douhet’s and Guderian’s views on different aspects were, with minor exceptions, generally quite