LEADER 02973oam 22005294a 450 001 9910693572303321 005 20230829003313.0 010 $a1-4294-7231-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000474420 035 $a(MH)008363697-8 035 $a(OCoLC)42072236 035 9 $aocm42072236 035 $a(OCoLC)991000000000474420 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000474420 100 $a19990729d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cn$2rdamedia 183 $anc$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe quest $eHaywood Hansell and American strategic bombing in World War II /$fCharles Griffith$b[electronic resource] 210 $aMaxwell Air Force Base, Ala. $cAir University Press$d1999 210 1$aMaxwell Air Force Base, Ala. :$cAir University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 226 p. )$cill. ; 311 $a1-58566-069-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-221) and index. 330 $aThis 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. 531 $aQUEST 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, American 606 $aBombing, Aerial$xHistory 606 $aStrategy 606 $aGenerals$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aBiography.$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, American. 615 0$aBombing, Aerial$xHistory. 615 0$aStrategy. 615 0$aGenerals 676 $a940.54/4973 700 $aGriffith$b Charles$f1957-$01352849 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bGPO 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910693572303321 996 $aThe quest$93204365 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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