02973oam 22005294a 450 991069357230332120230829003313.01-4294-7231-6(CKB)1000000000474420(MH)008363697-8(OCoLC)42072236ocm42072236(OCoLC)991000000000474420(EXLCZ)99100000000047442019990729d1999 uy 0engtxtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierThe quest Haywood Hansell and American strategic bombing in World War II /Charles Griffith[electronic resource]Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. Air University Press1999Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. :Air University Press,1999.1 online resource (xiii, 226 p. )ill. ;1-58566-069-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-221) and index.This biography of Maj Gen Haywood S. Hansell Jr. provides an in-depth look at the life and career of one of airpower's pioneer thinkers. General Hansell's professional life was devoted to the theory and practice of strategic airpower--the single most controversial military debate of the twentieth century. Hansell believed that wars could and should be won through precision bombing of military and industrial/commercial targets, a theory and practice that the United States Army Air Forces abandoned during World War II because of the dictates of existing technology, the demands of combat, and the fact that the passions of war swept away any moral concerns involving strategic bombing. Nevertheless, Hansell's main contribution to air doctrine was the concept that through selective targeting and an ability to place the bombs on those targets, airpower could win wars by crippling an enemy's ability to supply his forces and without causing wanton death and destruction. The author believes that the Persian Gulf War went a long way toward proving Hansell's theories to be correct.QUESTWorld War, 1939-1945Aerial operations, AmericanBombing, AerialHistoryStrategyGeneralsUnited StatesBiographyBiography.fastHistory.fastWorld War, 1939-1945Aerial operations, American.Bombing, AerialHistory.Strategy.Generals940.54/4973Griffith Charles1957-1352849DLCDLCGPOBOOK9910693572303321The quest3204365UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress