Strategic terror: the politics and ethics of aerial bombardment
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1. Verfasser: Grosscup, Beau (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia SIRD 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-218) and index
Shock and Awe!! Shock and Awe!! -- The Origins of Strategic Bombing -- Who is to be Bombed? The Self and Other in Imperial Culture -- Strategic Bombing Comes of Age -- Cold War Strategic Bombing: From Korea to Vietnam -- Terrorists in the Bombsites -- Strategic Bombing in the 1990s -- Bombing to Win: 9/11 and the War on Terrorism -- Dodging the Terrorism Label -- Terror from the Skies
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 226 p.)
ISBN:1281215724
1848130848
9781281215727
9781842775424
9781842775431
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