Biddle Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare

The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945
Core Textbook
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2497-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics

Tami Davis Biddle is Associate Professor of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College. She teaches military and diplomatic history, national security policy, and grand strategy. Her research focuses on the evolution of military ideas, and their implementation as strategies for national defense and methods of warfighting.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biddle, Tami

Biddle, Tami Davis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Luftstreitkräfte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

Chapter One

The Beginning: Strategic Bombing in the First World War 11

Chapter Two

Britain in the Interwar Years 69

Chapter Three

The United States in the Interwar Years 128

Chapter Four

Rhetoric and Reality, 1939-1942 176

Chapter Five

The Combined Bomber Offensive, 1943-1945 214

Conclusion 289

Notes 303

Bibliography of Archival Sources 387

Index 391

Über Autor(innen)

Tami Davis Biddle is Associate Professor of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College. She teaches military and diplomatic history, national security policy, and grand strategy. Her research focuses on the evolution of military ideas, and their implementation as strategies for national defense and methods of warfighting.