Strategic bombing doctrine, founded by the Italian general Giulio Douhet in his 1921 book The Command of the Air, holds that an air force able to strike an enemy's cities and industry directly can break the enemy population's will to continue the war without the stalemate and cost of a ground campaign. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ClaimAn air force that can strike an enemy's cities and industry directly can break its population's will to continue the war without the stalemate and cost of a ground campaign. 1 Classification
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strategic bombing-particularly targeting civilian populations and infrastructure-could break a nation's will to fight
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The Command of the Air (Il dominio dell'aria), published in 1921
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Strategic bombing doctrine, founded by the Italian general Giulio Douhet in his 1921 book The Command of the Air, holds that an air force able to strike an enemy's cities and industry directly can break the enemy population's will to continue the war without the stalemate and cost of a ground campaign.
- Developed By: Giulio Douhet, lead paragraph
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Associated With: Royal Air Force, World War II RAF practice sectionQuote, Associated With: Royal Air Force, World War II RAF practice section
the RAF adopted an area-attack strategy, by which it hoped to impede Germany's war production, her powers of resistance (by destroying resources and forcing Germany to divert resources from her front lines to defend her air space), and her morale.
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