| Description |
iv, 93 pages : illustrations ; 22cm |
| Series |
Whitehall paper series ; 30 |
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Whitehall paper series ; 30
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| Contents |
Psychological roots of war: national air strategies, air superiority, bombing, Second World War, offensive air support, strategic bombing offensives in Europe and Japan; Psychology of the attacked: universality of fear, individual preconceptions, stressors, combat stress, group psychology, psychology of victims, sensitisation, panic, expectancy, impotence, hopelessness, pervasiveness; Air wars of the later 20th century: Vietnam, Arab/Israeli Wars, Gulf War; Hypothesis: Air power and the enemy's resolve, interrelationship of the proto-theories; Tables: Enemy killed in action, deserters and prisoners of war - Gulf War; Bomb tonnage dropped in the Second World War - Europe; Allied bomb damage to Germany; Relative effectiveness of Coalition PSYOPS - Gulf War |
| Analysis |
Aerial warfare |
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Air power |
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Combat stress |
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Fear |
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Psychological effects |
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Strategic warfare |
| Notes |
RUSI Whitehall paper series 1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Air warfare -- Psychological aspects.
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| Author |
Lambert, A. P. N.
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Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies.
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| ISSN |
0268-1307 |
| ISBN |
0855161000 (paperback) |
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