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"Are We Beasts?" Churchill and the Moral Question of World War II "Area Bombing" - Naval War College Newport Papers 1 (Paperback)
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"Are We Beasts?" Churchill and the Moral Question of World War II "Area Bombing" - Naval War College Newport Papers 1 (Paperback)
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This historical reassessment of the World War II British bombing
campaign notes that through in 1940 Churchill declared that he was
waging "a military and not a civilian war" to destroy "military
objectives" and not "women and children," within eighteen months
both types of targets would be struck by Bomber Command. The author
searches for the reasons in "three contiguous realms" of strategic
influence: moral (and legal), political, and military. The study
concludes that although for much of the war "area bombing" of
cities was a "tragic necessity" meeting the "reasonable man's
standard of what was decently allowable given the blunt weapons the
Allies had" and the evils they faced, nonetheless Allied leaders
could have and should have abandoned indiscriminate bombing in the
last phases of the conflict, when more precise means were at hand
and "Nazi power had been overmatched."
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