The Development of RAF Strategic Bombing Doctrine, 1919-1939 by Robertson, Scot

The Development of RAF Strategic Bombing Doctrine, 1919-1939 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275949976)

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The Development of RAF Strategic Bombing Doctrine, 1919-1939 by Robertson, Scot

The Development of RAF Strategic Bombing Doctrine, 1919-1939

$95.00
The Development of RAF Strategic Bombing Doctrine, 1919-1939 by Robertson, Scot

The Development of RAF Strategic Bombing Doctrine, 1919-1939

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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The history of strategic bombing is inextricably intertwined with the history of the Royal Air Force. This book explores the question of doctrinal development in the RAF. It employs a neo-Clausewitzian analysis to reveal that the RAF based the preparation of its strategic bombing force on supposition and hypothesis. Rather than review the evidence of the First World War objectively to determine the fundamental principles of strategic bombing, the RAF adopted a subjective approach. The failure to develop a realistic theory of strategic bombing and to test it through a dialectical process resulted in a lack of attention to the equally necessary element of doctrine. Bomber Command was incapable of carrying out a strategic bombing campaign because it failed in peace to develop the necessary doctrine.

Author: Scot Robertson
ISBN-10: 0275949974
ISBN-13: 9780275949976
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 01/24/1995
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Scot Robertson
By Scot Robertson
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SCOT ROBERTSON is an analyst in the Force Development Branch of the Department of National Defence in Ottawa. He has contributed a chapter on Hugh Trenchard to a recent collection on military heretics and a chapter on the legal and moral aspects of the strategic bombing campaign during the Second World War, and has written extensively on arms control and various aspects of contemporary strategic issues. He is presently preparing a monograph on the British Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Defence Requirements Committee.

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