Aerial bombardment remains important to military strategy, but
the norms governing bombing and the harm it imposes on civilians
have evolved. The past century has seen everything from deliberate
attacks against rebellious villagers by Italian and British
colonial forces in the Middle East to scrupulous efforts to avoid
"collateral damage" in the counterinsurgency and antiterrorist wars
of today. The American Way of Bombing brings together prominent
military historians, practitioners, civilian and military legal
experts, political scientists, philosophers, and anthropologists to
explore the evolution of ethical and legal norms governing air
warfare.
Focusing primarily on the United States as the world's
preeminent military power and the one most frequently engaged in
air warfare, its practice has influenced normative change in this
domain, and will continue to do so the authors address such topics
as firebombing of cities during World War II; the atomic attacks on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the deployment of airpower in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Libya; and the use of unmanned drones for
surveillance and attacks on suspected terrorists in Pakistan,
Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and elsewhere.
Contributors: Tami Davis Biddle, U.S. Army War College; Sahr
Conway-Lanz, Yale University Library; Neta C. Crawford, Boston
University; Janina Dill, University of Oxford; Charles J. Dunlap
Jr., Duke University; Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University;
Charles Garraway, University of Essex; Hugh Gusterson, George Mason
University; Richard W. Miller, Cornell University; Mary Ellen O
Connell, University of Notre Dame; Margarita H. Petrova, Institut
Barcelona d Estudis Internacionals; Klem Ryan, United Nations,
South Sudan; Henry Shue, University of Oxford"
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