| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) |
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Shock and Awe!! Shock and Awe!! -- The Origins of Strategic Bombing -- Who is to be Bombed? The Self and Other in Imperial Culture -- Strategic Bombing Comes of Age -- Cold War Strategic Bombing: From Korea to Vietnam -- Terrorists in the Bombsites -- Strategic Bombing in the 1990s -- Bombing to Win: 9/11 and the War on Terrorism -- Dodging the Terrorism Label -- Terror from the Skies |
| Summary |
Strategic bombardments, either aimed explicitly at civilians or deployed in circumstances where extensive civilian deaths are written off as collateral damage or accidental, are becoming increasingly common. This book shows how certain European colonial powers, notably Britain, initiated aerial bombardment of civilians after World War I, how it was an instrument of choice in World War II, and how it has since been refined and practised by the US in Korea, Vietnam, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. It exposes the rationalizations put forward to avoid the label of?state terrorism?, the race, g |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Terrorism.
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Bombing, Aerial.
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Air warfare -- Psychological aspects
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terrorism.
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Military tactics.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Air warfare -- Psychological aspects
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Bombing, Aerial
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Terrorism
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Terrorism.
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Bombardments.
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Aerial warfare.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781848130845 |
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1848130848 |
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1281215724 |
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9781281215727 |
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