Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Source Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Genesis in the Great War

2. Progressive Prophecy

3. From Prophecy to Plan

4. Breaching Fortress Europe, 1942-43

5. Bludgeoning with Bombs: Germany, 1944-45

6. Fire from the Sky: Japan, 1944-45

7. Progressive Legacies

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

Study of progressivism's influence on the creation of the US Air Force and its use of precision bombing to end wars more quickly

About the Author

Mark Clodfelter is a professor of military strategy at the National War College. He is the author of The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam, available in a Bison Books edition.

Reviews

"A thoughtful and well written account of a central thread in the thinking of American airpower advocates and the way its implementation in two world wars took place at the time, was seen afterwards, and has come to be enormously influential in the decision process of our country's leaders into the twenty-first century." Gerhard L. Weinberg, professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and winner of the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award.