Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 - Paperback
by Tami Biddle
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tami BiddleSeries:Princeton Studies in International History and Politics #98Publish date:2004-09-19Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691120102ISBN-10:691120102UPC:9780691120102Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:MilitaryBook Topic:Aviation & Space, StrategySize:9.22 x 6.08 x 0.98 inchesWeight:1.2721Product ID:SCKKSE3HTJ
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....
Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics #98
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691120102ISBN-10:691120102UPC:9780691120102Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:MilitaryBook Topic:Aviation & Space, StrategySize:9.22 x 6.08 x 0.98 inchesWeight:1.2721Product ID:SCKKSE3HTJ
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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