How Effective is Strategic Bombing?: Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo
- ISBN-10
- 081473135X
- ISBN-13
- 9780814731352
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 275
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Author
- Gian P. Gentile
Description
In the wake of WWII, President Truman established the US Strategic Bombing Survey to determine how effectively strategic air power had been applied during the war. The final study has been used for decades as an objective primary source and a guiding text. Gentile (history, US Military Academy) re-examines this document to reveal how it reflected the American conceptual approach to strategic bombing. He exposes the survey as largely tautological, throwing into question many of the central tenets of American air power philosophy and strategy. He shows how recent problems with bomb damage assessment in the Balkans reinforce his conclusions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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