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Airpower in Literature - Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015 (Hardcover)
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Airpower in Literature - Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015 (Hardcover)
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The first century of airpower has ended, yet few critics have
addressed the literature that chronicles its human toll. Airpower
in Literature: Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015 offers fresh
insight into this airpower century by placing literature of five
major wars in conversation with the clean war discourse. Kimberly
Dougherty examines the paradoxical representation of aerial warfare
that has allowed extensive airstrikes on cities and civilians while
promising a "cleaner" method of waging war. First suggested by
early military theorists, the notion of a clean air war-one that
would save lives through its speed and precision- proved seductive
in the twentieth century and continues to shape the rhetoric of
airpower today. The air war is perceived as clean, the author
argues, when we see neither the aviator nor the targeted
populations in the bombing dynamic. Through analysis of fiction,
poetry, drama, and journalism, from the ruins of World War I to the
technologies of post-modern war, the author identifies
counternarratives that make visible both aviators and bombed
societies, and present aerial warfare that is not clean, but messy,
prolonged, and imprecise. This exploration encourages readers, and
writers, to approach the next century of airpower with greater
wisdom and empathy.
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