Bombing to Win

A. Pape Robert

Description

From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer. Analyzing the results of over thirty air campaigns, including a detailed reconstruction of the Gulf War, he argues that the key to success is attacking the enemy's military strategy, not its economy, people, or leaders. Coercive air power can succeed, but not as cheaply as air enthusiasts would like to believe.Pape examines the air raids on Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq as well as those of Israel versus Egypt, providing details of bombing and governmental decision making. His detailed narratives of the strategic effectiveness of bombing range from the classical cases of World War II to an extraordinary reconstruction of airpower use in the Gulf War, based on recently declassified documents. In this now-classic work of the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert A. Pape helps military strategists and policy makers judge the purpose of various air strategies, and helps general readers understand the policy debates.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Military history
• World War II

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 12 novembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780801471513
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

Extrait

A volume in the series

Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

edited byRobert J. Art, Robert Jervis, and Stephen M. Walt

A list of titles in this series is available at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.

Copyright © 1996 by Cornell University

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

First published 1996 by Cornell University Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 1996

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pape Robert Anthony, 1960– Bombing to win: air power and coercion in war / Robert A. Pape. p. cm. — (Cornell studies in security affairs) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-8311-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Bombing, Aerial—Case studies. 2. Air power—Case studies. I. Series. UG700.P365 1996 358.4'24—dc20 95-45071

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