Industrial web theory
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Industrial web theory is the military concept that an enemy's industrial power can be attacked at nodes of vulnerability, and thus the enemy's ability to wage a lengthy war can be severely limited, as
Muir S. Fairchild researched industrial interconnections.
Y1B-17 Flying Fortress service test aircraft undergoing trials
An instructional diagram of the Norden bombsight
Donald Wilson (general)
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Donald Wilson was a United States Army Air Forces general during World War II.
Industrial web theory
…industrial web theory" cannot be found in any official United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) doctrine. Instead, the term was coined in the 1930s by Donald Wilson, an instructor at ACTS, to cover the concept then under development. Prior theories of bombing were developed by Italian General Giulio Douhet, British…
Major General Donald Wilson
General George Kenney and his staff. Donald Wilson is in the foreground.
From left, General Carl A. Spaatz, Commanding General, Army Air Forces; Major General Muir S. Fairchild, Air University commander; and Major General Donald M. Wilson, Commanding General, Air Proving Ground Command, talk following the Air University dedication ceremony at Maxwell Field on 3 September 1946.