Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War / Edition 1

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Overview

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 the first major book since the Vietnam War on the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert A. Pape helps policy makers judge the purpose of various air strategies, and helps general readers understand the policy debates.
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Editorial Reviews

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Bombing to Win is a critically important book. If we are fortunate, Warden and his followers will mount a "counter-Pape" campaign in various professional journals, and our corporate knowledge will grow by the ensuing debate. In any event, every member of the National Defense Panel should be sent a copy of Bombing to Win. ~Navel War College Review (1997, issue 4)

Robert Pape argues comprehensively and convincingly that in 75 years, strategic bombing of civilians has had no effect on the war aims of their governments. . . . [His] contribution is well-grounded in massive scholarship, but its value lies more in the demolishing persistent misconceptions than in the provision of new insights for the future of air-power. ~Survival (Vol. 9, 1996)

This excellent work is highly recommended as an antidote to the air power hyperbole so often encountered after the Gulf War. ~NOD & Conversion (December 1996)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780801483110
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publication date: 4/28/1996
  • Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 408
  • Sales rank: 657,964
  • Product dimensions: 6.08 (w) x 9.02 (h) x 0.91 (d)

Table of Contents

1. Why Study Military Coercion?
2., Explaining Military Coercion
3. Coercive Air Power
4. Japan, 1944-1945
5. Korea, 1950-1953
6. Vietnam, 1965-1972
7. Iraq, 1991
8. Germany, 1942-1945
9. Beyond Strategic Bombing

Appendix: Coding Cases of Coercive Air Power
Index

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