Bomber Mafia
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The Bomber Mafia were a close-knit group of American military men who believed that long-range heavy bomber aircraft in large numbers were able to win a war. The derogatory term "Bomber Mafia" was use
Daylight precision-bombing advocates Carl A. Spaatz, Muir S. Fairchild and Donald M. Wilson at Maxwell Air Force Base in 1946
Lieutenant General Harold L. George, USAF
The Bomber Mafia
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War is a 2021 book by Canadian writer Malcolm Gladwell that examines the US Bomber Mafia of World War II, which advoc
Bomber Mafia
…The Bomber Mafia was gradually replaced in the 1950s and 1960s by advocates of intercontinental ballistic missile warfare. In his popular history book The Bomber Mafia (2021), Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell wrote that the idea of precision bombing stayed alive in the US military, with greater accuracy obtained…
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