Giulio Douhet, the Italian father of air power theory, wanted to avoid a repeat of World War I. Echoed throughout the interwar period, his idea was that by destroying the centers of enemy cities with bombers, even using poison gas weapons to slaughter the civilian workforce, the next…
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