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_c21.67 USD
100 1 _aPAPE Robert A
245 0 _aBombing to win:
_bair power and coercion in war /
_cRobert A Pape
260 _aIthaca, NY:
_bCornell University Press,
_c1996
300 _a366 p.
520 _aA study of military coercion and the role of air power in acheiving it. Considers why some states change behaviour in response to military threats whereas others fo not. Argues that successful coercion is based not on threats to civilian populations but when it targets military vulnerabilities. Assesses the role of airpower in the allied war war with Japan in 1944-45, in the Korean War 1950-53, in Vietnam from 1965-1972, in the Gulf war against Iraq 1991, and against Germany in the Second World War.
650 _aAIR POWER
650 _aSTRATEGIC WARFARE
650 _aAERIAL BOMBING
_xCASE STUDIES
440 _aCornell studies in security affairs
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945 _i2149-2001
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