With the collapse of France in 1940, American (US) and British (UK) leadership became keenly aware that the continued security of their nations required the def

The Allies chose a strategy utilizing a combination of various military actions most notably a combined bomber offensive (CBO) to defeat Germany. The CBO was ca

In the wake of WWII, President Truman established the US Strategic Bombing Survey to determine how effectively strategic air power had been applied during the w

In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and apho

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 provid