03321nam 22006494a 450 991045596030332120200520144314.00-8147-3271-20-8147-3331-X0-585-42522-1(CKB)111056486727276(EBL)866162(OCoLC)779828451(SSID)ssj0000173464(PQKBManifestationID)11161987(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173464(PQKBWorkID)10164126(PQKB)10711517(MiAaPQ)EBC866162(OCoLC)50745522(MdBmJHUP)muse10784(Au-PeEL)EBL866162(CaPaEBR)ebr10032565(EXLCZ)9911105648672727620000821d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHow effective is strategic bombing?[electronic resource] lessons learned from World War II and Kosovo /Gian P. GentileNew York New York University Pressc20011 online resource (286 p.)World of warDescription based upon print version of record.0-8147-3135-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 The Origins of the American Conceptual Approach to Strategic Bombing and the United StatesStrategic 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 DefenseChapter 7 A Comparison of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey with theGulf War Air Power SurveyAFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHORIn 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 inWorld of war.Bombing, AerialUnited StatesWorld War, 1939-1945Aerial operations, AmericanKosovo War, 1998-1999Aerial operations, AmericanElectronic books.Bombing, AerialWorld War, 1939-1945Aerial operations, American.Kosovo War, 1998-1999Aerial operations, American.355.4/22Gentile Gian P1045422MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455960303321How effective is strategic bombing2471694UNINA