Japan's Struggle to End the War
Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Japan
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Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Japan
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Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Bombing, Aerial
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Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Bombing, Aerial
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Author : Gian P. Gentile
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814731352
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 war. The final study has been used for decades as an objective primary source and a guiding text. Gentile (history, US Military Academy) re-examines this document to reveal how it reflected the American conceptual approach to strategic bombing. He exposes the survey as largely tautological, throwing into question many of the central tenets of American air power philosophy and strategy. He shows how recent problems with bomb damage assessment in the Balkans reinforce his conclusions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Robert A. Pape
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801471508
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.
Author : Dr. Jeffrey Record
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1786252961
Japan’s decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point of suicidal. How could Japan hope to survive a war with, much less defeat, an enemy possessing an invulnerable homeland and an industrial base 10 times that of Japan? The Pacific War was one that Japan was always going to lose, so how does one explain Tokyo’s decision? Did the Japanese recognize the odds against them? Did they have a concept of victory, or at least of avoiding defeat? Or did the Japanese prefer a lost war to an unacceptable peace? Dr. Jeffrey Record takes a fresh look at Japan’s decision for war, and concludes that it was dictated by Japanese pride and the threatened economic destruction of Japan by the United States. He believes that Japanese aggression in East Asia was the root cause of the Pacific War, but argues that the road to war in 1941 was built on American as well as Japanese miscalculations and that both sides suffered from cultural ignorance and racial arrogance. Record finds that the Americans underestimated the role of fear and honor in Japanese calculations and overestimated the effectiveness of economic sanctions as a deterrent to war, whereas the Japanese underestimated the cohesion and resolve of an aroused American society and overestimated their own martial prowess as a means of defeating U.S. material superiority. He believes that the failure of deterrence was mutual, and that the descent of the United States and Japan into war contains lessons of great and continuing relevance to American foreign policy and defense decision-makers.
Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Morale Division
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Page : 282 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Bombing, Aerial
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Examines the willingness and capacity of the Japanese to work and sacrifice to win the war, and how those attitudes changed as a result of the American bombing campaigns, including the atomic bombs, directed at the nation as a whole.
Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Morale
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Publisher :
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Industries
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Author : J. Samuel Walker
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 144299472X