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Beneficial Bombing: The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
Mark Clodfelter
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Description for Beneficial Bombing: The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
Hardback. Study of progressivism's influence on the creation of the US Air Force and its use of precision bombing to end wars more quickly Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military. Num Pages: 392 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JWG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 712.
The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement—to reform war by relying on destructive technology as the instrument of change. In Beneficial Bombing Mark Clodfelter describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I’s trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas of efficiency and economy in an effort to reform war itself, with the heavy bomber as their ... Read more
The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement—to reform war by relying on destructive technology as the instrument of change. In Beneficial Bombing Mark Clodfelter describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I’s trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas of efficiency and economy in an effort to reform war itself, with the heavy bomber as their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Studies in War, Society, and the Military
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803233980
SKU
V9780803233980
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About Mark Clodfelter
Mark Clodfelter is a professor of military strategy at the National War College. He is the author of The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam, available in a Bison Books edition.
Reviews for Beneficial Bombing: The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
"A thoughtful and well written account of a central thread in the thinking of American airpower advocates and the way its implementation in two world wars took place at the time, was seen afterwards, and has come to be enormously influential in the decision process of our country's leaders into the twenty-first century."-Gerhard L. Weinberg, professor emeritus at the University ... Read more