PDF-[DOWNLOAD]-The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon

How did the United States become committed to the warplane as an instrument of national policy What forces influenced Americas decision to rely on indiscriminate destruction to implement its will This book is the first indepth history of the rise of American strategic bombing With impressive sweep and vigor Michael S Sherry explores the aspirations and illusions that led Americans to embrace air power before World War II the ideas techniques and organizations that guided air attacks during the war and the devastating effects of American and British conventional bombing His book is a major contribution to American military intellectual and political historySherry investigates the growing appeal of air power in America from the turn of the century to the end of World War II he demonstrates that the airplane became at the same time the embodiment of the fantasy of flight a celebration of American technical genius and might and a promise of escape from the protracted destruction suffered by land armies Then because what America thought about air power is only half the story Sherry reconstructs in compelling detail what bombing actually did focusing on the campaign of firebombing against Japanese cities during World War II that preceded the atomic bomb and rivaled it in destructive fury Sherry explores why Americans employed against Japan the techniques of city bombing they had usually resisted in Europe and in the process examines the insidious role of racism in American policy He shows how the bureaucratization of this war by which the bombing campaign against Japan was directed from offices in Washington DC affected the decision process And he assesses the roles and personalities of such controversial policymakers as Roosevelt LeMay Arnold and TrumanSherrys book traces the origins of a dangerous illusion in American thought about bombing and mass destruction that the bombing of cities would be so horrific that nations would not dare let it occur or long tolerate it if restraint broke down This illusion says Sherry persists today and it has sanctioned the growth of nuclear arsenal crippled efforts to contain the nuclear buildup and immensely deepened the modern nuclear peril. 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It chronicles America’s transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos. While the major conflicts in American history have become all too familiar, America’s ?small wars” have played an essential but little-appreciated role in the country’s growth as a world power. First published in 2002, The Savage Wars of Peace quickly became a key volume in the case for a new policy of interventionism. Max Boot shows how America’s smaller actions—such as the recent conflicts in Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo, and Afghanistan—have made up the vast majority of our military engagements, and yet our armed forces do little to prepare for these ?low intensity conflicts.”A compellingly readable history of the forgotten wars that helped promote America’s rise in the last two centuries, The Savage Wars of Peace is now updated with new material on the repercussions of America’s far-flung imperial actions and the impact of these ventures in American international affairs. How did the United States become committed to the warplane as an instrument of national policy? What forces influenced America\'s decision to rely on indiscriminate destruction to implement its will? This book is the first in-depth history of the rise of American strategic bombing. With impressive sweep and vigor, Michael S. Sherry explores the aspirations and illusions that led Americans to embrace air power before World War II, the ideas, techniques, and organizations that guided air attacks during the war, and the devastating effects of American and British conventional bombing. His book is a major contribution to American military, intellectual, and political history.Sherry investigates the growing appeal of air power in America from the turn of the century to the end of World War II. he demonstrates that the airplane became at the same time the embodiment of the fantasy of flight, a celebration of American technical genius and might, and a promise of escape from the protracted destruction suffered by land armies. Then, because what America thought about air power is only half the story, Sherry reconstructs in compelling detail what bombing actually did, focusing on the campaign of firebombing against Japanese cities during World War II that preceded the atomic bomb and rivaled it in destructive fury. Sherry explores why Americans employed against Japan the techniques of city bombing they had usually resisted in Europe and, in the process, examines the insidious role of racism in American policy. He shows how the bureaucratization of this war, by which the bombing campaign against Japan was directed from offices in Washington D.C., affected the decision process, And he assesses the roles and personalities of such controversial policymakers as Roosevelt, LeMay, Arnold, and Truman.Sherry\'s book traces the origins of a dangerous illusion in American thought about bombing and mass destruction: that the bombing of cities would be so horrific that nations would not dare let it occur, or long tolerate it if restraint broke down. This illusion, says Sherry, persists today and it has sanctioned the growth of nuclear arsenal, crippled efforts to contain the nuclear buildup, and immensely deepened the modern nuclear peril.