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200 10$aHow effective is strategic bombing?$b[electronic resource] $elessons learned from World War II and Kosovo /$fGian P. Gentile
210   $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2001
215   $a1 online resource (286 p.)
225 1 $aWorld of war
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.
327   $aCONTENTS; 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 Defense
327   $aChapter 7 A Comparison of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey with theGulf War Air Power SurveyAFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
330   $aIn 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 in
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606   $aKosovo War, 1998-1999$xAerial operations, American
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