#Gullio Douhet

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Strategic bombing – from Douhet to drones

Introduction Gulio Douhet and bomber mafia Italian general Gulio Douhet was, along with UK politician Stanley Baldwin (who said that “bomber will always get through”), German general Walther Wever, US general Billy Mitchell and UK marshal Hugh Trenchard, one of main advocates of idea that strategic bombing can win war. Ideas were as following: war can be won entirely by destruction of enemy…