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American Airpower Strategy in World War II - Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil (Paperback)
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American Airpower Strategy in World War II - Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil (Paperback)
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Resistance is a Product of will times means, Carl von Clausewitz
postulated in his treatise On War. In his 1993 Bombs, Cities, and
Civilians, which the American Historical Review judged “must
reading for anyone interested in the Subject of air warfare,”
Conrad C. Crane focused on the moral dimension of American air
strategy in World War II—specifically, the Allied effort to break
the enemy’s will through targeting civilians. With decades of
research and reflection, and a wealth of new material at his
command, Crane returns to the Subject of America's WWII airpower
strategy to offer an analysis fully engaged with the 'means' side
of Clausewitz's equation: the design and impact of strategic
bombing of the enemy's infrastructure and thus its capacity to
fight. A marked advance in our understanding of the use of airpower
in war in general and the Second World War in particular, Crane's
work shows how, despite an undeniable lack of concern about
civilian casualties in Germany and Japan late in the war, American
strategic bombing in WWII consistently focused on destroying the
enemy's war-making capacity instead of its collapsing will.
Further, Crane persuasively argues that in the limited wars since
then, separating such targets has become increasingly more
difficult, and all air campaigns against states have subsequently
escalated to accept greater risks for civilians. American Airpower
Strategy in World War II also provides an expanded close look at
the use of airpower in the last three months of the strategic air
war against Germany, when so many bombing missions relied upon
radar aids, as well as the first direct comparison of 8th and 15th
Air Force bombing campaigns in Europe. The result is the most
coherent and concise analysis of the application and legacy of
Allied strategic airpower in WWII and a work that will inform all
future practical and theoretical consideration of the use, and the
role, of airpower in war.
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