Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare
The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945
A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about strategic bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on--and gained validity from--widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These assumptions were derived from the social and political context of the day and were maintained largely through cognitive error and bias. Tami Davis Biddle explains how air theorists, and those influenced by them, came to believe that strategic bombing…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-691-12010-2
- EAN: 9780691120102
- Produktnummer: 8728501
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 418 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.4 cm 670 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 670
Über den Autor
Tami Davis Biddle is Associate Professor of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College. She teaches military and diplomatic history, national security policy, and grand strategy. Her research focuses on the evolution of military ideas, and their implementation as strategies for national defense and methods of warfighting.
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