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| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Why Study Military Coercion? | 1 |
| 2 | Explaining Military Coercion | 12 |
| 3 | Coercive Air Power | 55 |
| 4 | Japan, 1944-1945 | 87 |
| 5 | Korea, 1950-1953 | 137 |
| 6 | Vietnam, 1965-1972 | 174 |
| 7 | Iraq, 1991 | 211 |
| 8 | Germany, 1942-1945 | 254 |
| 9 | Beyond Strategic Bombing | 314 |
| Appendix: Coding Cases of Coercive Air Power | 332 | |
| Index | 359 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Mary Maginley
reviewed Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War on October 01, 2012
Bombing to Win
This book contains a good education in several theories of the application of airpower: denial, particularly theater level interdiction; the risk-level display of ratcheting up the effects of bombing based on Thomas Schelling; and civilian or economic punishment attacks as favored by Giulio Douhet. The author, Robert Pape, proposes that coercion in war is tough to do, frequently does not work, when it works it does not come at a significantly cheaper cost to the coercer, and -- if it does work -- it is the result of theater level interdiction on a denial campaign against the enemy's military power and not by strategic bombing in risk level or punishment campaigns.
I recommend skipping directly to the summary chapter in the back of the book, titled Beyond Strategic Bombing. There, Pape has done the reader a favor by summarizing the essential arguments of Bombing to Win in 25 pages or so instead of 350.
This book is also good for a moderate case of insomnia.
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