Strategic Terror
Subtitle: The Politics and Ethics of Aerial Bombardment
Publisher: Zed Books; SIRD
Published: August 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781842775431
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; Armed conflict; Aerial Operations; Political Terrorism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Military - Aviation; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Military Science; Air warfare; Bombing, Aerial; Psychological aspects; Terrorism
Description: Strategic bombardments, either aimed explicitly at civilians or deployed in circumstances where extensive civilian deaths are written off as collateral damage or accidental, are becoming increasingly common. This book shows how certain European colonial powers, notably Britain, initiated aerial bombardment of civilians after World War I, how it was an instrument of choice in World War II, and how it has since been refined and practised by the US in Korea, Vietnam, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. It exposes the rationalizations put forward to avoid the label of?state terrorism?, the race, g.