Beneficial Bombing: The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945 (repost)
Mark Clodfelter, "Beneficial Bombing: The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945"
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr | ISBN 10: 0803233981 | 2011 | PDF | 400 pages | 15.2 MB
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr | ISBN 10: 0803233981 | 2011 | PDF | 400 pages | 15.2 MB
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 solution to limiting the bloodshed. They were convinced that the airplane, used as a bombing platform, offered the means to make wars less lethal than conflicts waged by armies or navies.