Part One: DEMOCRACY AND BOMBING
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Hugh Trenchard's vision
As early as 1917, Trenchard "was thinking in terms of the future, of the destruction which would rain down on the industrial vitals of Germany the following Spring…”
Did it work?
The American geopolitics specialist Caroll Quigley questions the effectiveness of the method
Wars of whole populations
The contribution of the Italian theorist Giulio Douhet
'Appeasement' and the new philosophy of war
How Britain prepared for the wrong war ... but went on to fight it anyway