This biography of Maj Gen Haywood S. Hansell Jr. provides an
in-depth look at the life and career of one of airpower's pioneer
thinkers. General Hansell's professional life was devoted to the
theory and practice of strategic airpower -- the single most
controversial military debate of the twentieth century. Hansell
believed that wars could and should be won through precision
bombing of military and industrial/commercial targets, a theory and
practice that the United States Army Air Forces abandoned during
World War II because of the dictates of existing technology, the
demands of combat, and the fact that the passions of war swept away
any moral concerns involving strategic bombing. Nevertheless,
Hansell's main contribution to air doctrine was the concept that
through selective targeting and an ability to place the bombs on
those targets, airpower could win wars by crippling an enemy's
ability to supply his forces and without causing wanton death and
destruction. The author believes that the Persian Gulf War went a
long way toward proving Hansell's theories to be correct.
General
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