except Desert Storm, and every orher war since 1930 have proved Douhet wrong. This is what happens when you study history exclusively through tiktok and the history channel.
@MaxwellAerialPhotography ...thank you . People saying that his theory is why whe French and UK were reluctant to start a war with Germany ... pretty sure it was because only 21 years before the first word war was finally coming to a ceasefire acored...and those who rand the UK / French government could remember serving in the trenches .....and because the population they served also has bitter memories ...the UK lost 4 million men from 1914 to 1918 . Each one a son , husband farther .
He was quite extreme in his view, but that book still has a place in military theory. The concept of "bombing someone into submission" is not dead, despite being very much reduced
Yeah that shit never works. You just end up vastly increasing cvilian casualties. Only works if you do ti briefly, very carefully and the enemy is alreayd on the verge of open rebellion. WWhich is what the US always tries to do. However when facing a proper enemy all you're doing is just vastly increasing suffering with very little strategic result.
it worked more in there cultural climate but we've seen to many rebellions succeed too many occupations thwarted though I suppose it's mainly the success of democracy that its fallen in practice its unpopular we don't like being the bad guys
Quick note, "Il Dominio dell'Aria" would more accurately transfer to "The Domain of the Air" rather than 'The Command of the Air', not much difference besides the fact that it not only refers to the supremacy of the air and its control but also in itself as a whole 'realm'. Anyway, the book is quite interesting and while it features some rather outlandish proposals from a modern perspective, such as, and I'm paraphrasing, 'air defenses are a waste of resources, use those resources to build more planes to protect your airspace ant then attack the enemy' (given the radar came along years after his death, and how would he have ever imagined missiles). Yet it also incorpoeated very crucial ideas, from things as 'basic' as considering the air a standalone part of warfare and not an Air Service subordinated to the army. Despite the book being very subject to a critical review, many of the postulations do give food for thought and given the first publication is more than 100 years old, you have to give him credit, he was quite the visionary, even if not all his thoughts were proven right... (yet?)
Please structure your shorts better, it's infuriating the first short about air power being in the middle of the rest of the conversation, there's no order to at all.
RIP Douhet you would've loved Desert Storm
Dessert storm ...the largest land invasion since ww2 .
except Desert Storm, and every orher war since 1930 have proved Douhet wrong. This is what happens when you study history exclusively through tiktok and the history channel.
@MaxwellAerialPhotography ...thank you . People saying that his theory is why whe French and UK were reluctant to start a war with Germany ... pretty sure it was because only 21 years before the first word war was finally coming to a ceasefire acored...and those who rand the UK / French government could remember serving in the trenches .....and because the population they served also has bitter memories ...the UK lost 4 million men from 1914 to 1918 . Each one a son , husband farther .
He was quite extreme in his view, but that book still has a place in military theory.
The concept of "bombing someone into submission" is not dead, despite being very much reduced
Something about indiscriminate bombing makes civilians grumpy.
Yeah that shit never works. You just end up vastly increasing cvilian casualties. Only works if you do ti briefly, very carefully and the enemy is alreayd on the verge of open rebellion. WWhich is what the US always tries to do. However when facing a proper enemy all you're doing is just vastly increasing suffering with very little strategic result.
it worked more in there cultural climate but we've seen to many rebellions succeed too many occupations thwarted
though I suppose it's mainly the success of democracy that its fallen in practice
its unpopular we don't like being the bad guys
If you think about it, everything is just to support the army and everything in the army is to support the infantry
True
He would love modern fighter jets. Also he wasnt wrong that Italy was fighting the war incompetently.
Fighter jets are alreayd on the verge of being obsolete. Anti air missles and drones are a vastly cost efficient method of air defense.
Just like anti tank missles made tanks obsolete
NOT
Quick note, "Il Dominio dell'Aria" would more accurately transfer to "The Domain of the Air" rather than 'The Command of the Air', not much difference besides the fact that it not only refers to the supremacy of the air and its control but also in itself as a whole 'realm'.
Anyway, the book is quite interesting and while it features some rather outlandish proposals from a modern perspective, such as, and I'm paraphrasing, 'air defenses are a waste of resources, use those resources to build more planes to protect your airspace ant then attack the enemy' (given the radar came along years after his death, and how would he have ever imagined missiles). Yet it also incorpoeated very crucial ideas, from things as 'basic' as considering the air a standalone part of warfare and not an Air Service subordinated to the army.
Despite the book being very subject to a critical review, many of the postulations do give food for thought and given the first publication is more than 100 years old, you have to give him credit, he was quite the visionary, even if not all his thoughts were proven right... (yet?)
An opinion that was shared by a number of American air power advocates until Korea.
Fun fact first airplane is downed by Ottomans at this war.
That's why US Navy number one
Cas is king.
(c) TommyK
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And he's right
Wrong
The British followed this
Harris did.
Please structure your shorts better, it's infuriating the first short about air power being in the middle of the rest of the conversation, there's no order to at all.