How Effective is Strategic Bombing is a thought provoking analysis
on the subject of air power and bombing and the use of surveys to
explain the effects of air power on the enemy in conflict."
-- "Parameters"
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.
In this aggressively revisionist volume, Gian Gentile examines
afresh this influential document to reveal how it reflected to its
very foundation the American conceptual approach to strategic
bombing. In the process, he exposes the survey as largely
tautological and thereby throwing into question many of the central
tenets of American air power philosophy and strategy.
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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