TY  - GEN
T1  - Beneficial Bombing : the Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945.
T2  - Studies in War, Society, & the Military.
A1  - Clodfelter, Mark
LA  - English
PP  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn699475345
AB  - The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement--to reform war by relying on destructive technology as the instrument of change. In Beneficial Bombing Mark Clodfelter describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I's trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas of efficiency and economy in an effort to reform war itself, with the heavy b.
OP  - 390
CN  - UG703 .C56 2010
SN  - 9780803234499
SN  - 080323449X
SN  - 1283051095
SN  - 9781283051095
SN  - 9780803271807
SN  - 0803271808
SN  - 9780803233980
SN  - 0803233981
KW  - Bombing, Aerial : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Air power : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Precision bombing : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Aerial operations.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Aerial operations.
KW  - Progressivism (United States politics) : History : 20th century.
KW  - Bombardement aérien : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Forces aériennes : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 : Opérations aériennes.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 : Opérations aériennes.
KW  - Progressisme : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - HISTORY : Military : Aviation.
KW  - Air power
KW  - Bombing, Aerial
KW  - Military operations, Aerial
KW  - Precision bombing
KW  - Progressivism (United States politics)
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -