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Strategic Terror

The Politics and Ethics of Aerial Bombardment

By Beau Grosscup

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Publish Date

August 22, 2006

Publisher

Zed Books,SIRD

Language

eng

Pages

224

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.