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How Effective Is Strategic Bombing?: Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo
Hardcover
Series: World of War, Book 1
Military StrategyWeapons of Mass Destruction
ISBN13: 9780814731352
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 2000
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.29 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
In the wake of World War II, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and President Harry S. Truman established the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, to determine exactly how effectively strategic air power had been applied in the European theater and in the Pacific. The final study, consisting of over 330 separate reports and annexes, was staggering in its size and emphatic in its conclusions. As such it has for decades been used as an objective primary source and a guiding text, a veritable Bible for historians of air power.
With a detailed chapter on the Gulf War and the resulting Gulf War Air Power Survey, and a concluding chapter on the lessons of the Kosovo air war, How Effective is Strategic Bombing? is the most comprehensive and important book on air power strategy in decades.
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