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<p>a Groundbreaking Historical Analysis Of Indiscriminate Bombing From The Advent Of Aircraft To The Present War In Iraq.</p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p><p>young, A Professor Of History At Nyu, And Tanaka, Of The Hiroshima Peace Institute, Bring Together Eight Essays By American, Japanese And European Scholars On A Disturbing Subject&#58; Why Has Aerial Warfare, Beginning In Wwi, Emphasized Civilian Targets? Aerial Bombing Affects Civilian Morale, A Vulnerable Element In A Country Mobilized For Total War. Tanaka Demonstrates That During The Interwar Years The British Considered Air Strikes In Iraq A Cheaper, More Humane Way Of Maintaining Imperial Control Than Conventional Ground Operations. Ronald Schaeffer, Robert Moeller And Mark Selden Each Show That Area Bombardment Was Regarded, In Particular By Britain And The U.s., As A Shortcut To Victory Long After Evidence Ceased To Support The Belief. Selden Goes So Far As To Assert That [m]ass Murder Of Civilians Has Been Central To All Subsequent U.s. Wars. Discussing The Morality Of Bombing, C.a.j. Coady Is The Only Contributor Who Engages The Moral Principle Of Double Effect&#58; Keeping Collateral Damage Under The Restraints Of

Author

Marilyn B. Young and Yuki Tanaka

Publisher

New York: New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781595585479

Subjects

Military, History, Government_military

Rating

3.71 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14