Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-SEP-03
Format: Online - approximately 708 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: de Syon, Guillaume
Article Excerpt
By Tami Davis Biddle. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Notes. Index. Pp. viii, 406. $ 45.00 ISBN: 0-691-08909-4
The use of strategic bombing in recent American engagements from the Gulf War to Kosovo and Afghanistan has prompted considerable discussion about the effectiveness of military aviation and how air strategy has evolved historically. In a fresh and lucid look at the evidence, Tami Davis Biddle analyzes the factors affecting British and American decisions in both world wars to use aircraft to bomb nations, and why expectations never matched results. Her contextualization helps her prove that while strategic bombing serves important purposes, it is far from solving...
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