Bombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians? From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent policies in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, Bombing Civilians analyzes in detail the history of indiscriminate bombing, examining the fundamental questions of how this theory justifying mass killing originated and why it was employed as a compelling military strategy for decades, both before and since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Table of contents
- Also edited by Marilyn B. Young from The New Press
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 - BRITISH “HUMANE BOMBING” IN IRAQ DURING THE INTERWAR ERA
- 2 - THE BOMBING CAMPAIGNS IN WORLD WAR II: THE EUROPEAN THEATER
- 3 - THE BOMBING WAR IN GERMANY, 2005-1940: BACK TO THE FUTURE?
- 4 - A FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST: U.S. BOMBING STRATEGY, THE DESTRUCTION OF JAPANESE ...
- 5 - WERE THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI JUSTIFIED?
- 6 - STRATEGIC BOMBING OF CHONGQING BY IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY AND NAVAL FORCES
- 7 - BOMBING CIVILIANS FROM THE TWENTIETH TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
- 8 - THE UNITED STATES AND STRATEGIC BOMBING: FROM PROPHECY TO MEMORY
- 9 - BOMBING AND THE MORALITY OF WAR
- 10 - AERIAL BOMBARDMENT OF CIVILIANS: THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK
- NOTES
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
- Copyright Page
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