The leadership, direction and legitimacy of the RAF bomber offensive from inception to 1945 [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Gray

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790355403321
• Autore: Gray Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2012
• ISBN: 1-4411-6227-5; 1-280-69985-X; 9786613676832; 1-4411-2313-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 p.)
• Collana: Birmingham war studies series
• Disciplina: 940.544941
• Soggetti: World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, British
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Preface; Abbreviations; Codewords; 1 Introduction; The Literature; Terminology; Senior Leadership: The Underpinning Theory; Content; 2 The Intellectual Context; Leadership Thinking and Teaching; The Contemporary Thinking on the Ethical and Legal Use of Armed Force; Air Doctrine and Strategy; The Luftwaffe Approach; Conclusions; 3 The Organizational Context; The Constitutional and Legal Basis; The Cabinet Committees and the Chiefs; The Air Ministry; The Independent Force; Organizational Survival; 4 From Disarmament to the Outbreak of War; The Geneva Disarmament ConferenceThe Need for Rearmament; The Formation of Bomber Command; The Road to War: Vision and Purpose of the Bomber Force; The Legalities and Legitimacy; Munich to War; Conclusions; 5 From the Outbreak of War to Area Bombing; Relationships with Allies; Vision, Purpose and Direction: Portal and Invasion; Vision and Purpose: The Coming of Area Bombing; Morality and Legality; Concluding Comments; 6 The Strategic and Grand Strategic Dimensions 1942-45; Prelude to the Combined Bombing Offensive; Planning the Offensive: Washington to Casablanca; Casablanca (Symbol); Washington and PointblankStrategic Assets for Overlord: Command and Control; Strategic Assets for Overlord: Targeting Policy; D-Day to ; Dresden; Conclusions; 7 The Strategic and Operational Interface 1942-45; Churchill and his Bomber Barons; The Relationship between the Air Ministry and Bomber Command; Area Bombing; Diversions and Panaceas; The Bomber Offensive as a Guerre de Course?; The Debate over Perceptions of the Campaign; The Vulnerability of German Morale; Overlord; Oil; Conclusions; 8 The Strategic Leadership Challenge; Appendices:; 1. Definitions of Leadership, Management and Command; 2. Biographical Notes3. Legal Texts; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Leadership, Direction and Legitimacy of the RAF Bomber Offensive from Inception to 1945 offers a fresh approach to the debate on the RAF's strategic bomber offensive by using modern strategic leadership theory as an analytical tool to examine the campaign. In particular, it looks at the legality and legitimacy of the offensive and explores the key interfaces between the military leaders, the politicians and allies. It also looks at the major controversies in the aims and objectives of the campaign and the personalities involved.Modern literature from the leadership field is used to consider th