American Airpower Strategy in World War II
：Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil
Publication subTitle ：Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil
Author： Crane > Conrad C.
Publisher： University Press of Kansas
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9780700622108
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780700622092
Subject： K712.53 第二次世界大战时期（1939~1945年）
Keyword： 世界军事,战略学、战役学、战术学
Language： ENG
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Description
Resistance is a product of will times means, Carl von Clausewitz postulated in his treatise On War. In his 1993 Bombs, Cities, and Civilians, which the American Historical Review judged “must reading for anyone interested in the subject of air warfare,” Conrad C. Crane focused on the moral dimension of American air strategy in World War II—specifically, the Allied effort to break the enemy’s will through targeting civilians. With decades of research and reflection, and a wealth of new material at his command, Crane returns to the subject of America’s WWII airpower strategy to offer an analysis fully engaged with the “means” side of Clausewitz’s equation: the design and impact of strategic bombing of the enemy’s infrastructure and thus its capacity to fight.
A marked advance in our understanding of the use of airpower in war in general and the Second World War in particular, Crane’s work shows how, despite an undeniable lack of concern about civilian casualties in Germany and Japan late in the war, American strategic bombing in WWII consistently focused on destroying the enemy’s war-making capacity instead of its collapsing will. Further, Crane persuasively argues that in the limited wars since then, separating such targets has become increasingly more difficult, and all air campaigns against states have subsequently escalated to accept greater risks for civilians. American Airpow
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