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How effective is strategic bombing? : lessons learned from World War II and Kosovo / Gian P. Gentile.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gentile, Gian P.
- Series:
- World of war.
- World of war
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bombing, Aerial--United States.
- Bombing, Aerial.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Aerial operations, American.
- Kosovo War, 1998-1999.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 275 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 The Origins of the American Conceptual Approach to Strategic Bombing and the United States Strategic Bombing Survey; Chapter 2 The United States Strategic Bombing Survey and the Future of the Air Force; Chapter 3 The Evaluation of Strategic Bombing against Germany; Chapter 4 The Survey Presents Its Findings from Europe and Develops an Alternate Strategic Bombing Plan for Japan; Chapter 5 The Evaluation of Strategic Bombing against Japan; Chapter 6 A-Bombs, Budgets, and the Dilemma of Defense
- Chapter 7 A Comparison of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey with the Gulf War Air Power Survey AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814732717
- 0814732712
- 9780814733318
- 081473331X
- 9780585425221
- 0585425221
- OCLC:
- 779828451
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