Mark Clodfelter: 2 books
Beneficial Bombing
The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement—to...
by Mark Clodfelter
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1989
The Limits of Air Power analyzes the American bombing campaigns in Vietnam and shows why the use of air power, so effective in previous wars, proved unsuccessful in a limited war.
Major Mark Clodfelter, a military historian, assesses the American use of air power from World War II through the...