ISBN: 9781842775431

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Zed Books Ltd], - An engrossing global history of aerial bombardment throughout the 20th century and into the present - Unique focus on the arguments around catego… Mehr…

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Zed Books Ltd], - An engrossing global history of aerial bombardment throughout the 20th century and into the present - Unique focus on the arguments around categorising aerial bombardment as state terrorism - Aimed at students in war studies, international relations and human rights, and the anti-war movement 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, gender and class biases used to justify bombing 'other' people and the dirty secret about the so-called 'clean' use of air power. It argues that if terrorism is to be diminished, the role of aerial bombing in sustaining global violence must be recognized and confronted. CONTENTS 1. Shock and Awe!! Shock and Awe!! - 'Shock and Awe' and Terrorism - The Political Culture of 'Shock and Awe' - Civilian Casualties: Whose Counting? - Iraqi Civilian Casualties: Blaming the Victims 2. The Origins of Strategic Bombing - The Great War and Strategic Bombing Theory - -The Prophets Speak - Civilians in Warfare 3. Who is to be Bombed? The Self and Other in Imperial Culture - The Rise of Imperial Culture - The Imperial Center: Bombing in the Great Wars of the Future - The Militarized Prophets - Bombing Civilians to Win - The Prophets of Strategic Bombing 4. Strategic Bombing Comes of Age - Bombing the Colonial Masses - Total War in the Imperial Center: The Search for Rules - The Fascists Bomb Republican Spain - The United States' Entry into Strategic Bombing - Strategic Bombing in World War II - The British Bombing Campaign - United States Strategic Bombing 5. Cold War Strategic Bombing: From Korea to Vietnam - United States Cold War Bombing Doctrine - Total War: The Atomic Strategic Bombing Scenario - A Return to Conventional Strategic Bombing - The Forgotten Bombing of Korea - Lessons of the Forgotten War - Bombing Indochina - Assessing the Civilian Carnage - Objectifying Indochina's Victims 6. Terrorists in the Bombsites - The Politics of Terrorism - The New World Order: Keeping Terrorism at a Distance 7. Strategic Bombing in the 1990s - The Persian Gulf War: Planning the Air Attack - The 'Hyper-war' - Hyperwar: Assessing the Carnage - Terrorizing the Environment - Counting the Hyperwar Dead - Playing the Terrorism Card - Race, Class and Gender in the New Face of Terrorism - Bombing the Terrorists of the New World Order - Israeli and Russian Strategic Bombing - NATO's 'Humanitarian' Bombing of Kosovo and Serbia - Bombing the Environment: Indirect Civilian Deaths 8. Bombing to Win: 9/11 and the War on Terrorism - Patterns of Strategic Bombing - The Strategic Bombing of 9/11 - Bush's Post 9/11 War on Terrorism - The Revenge Bombing Afghanistan - The New Precision War: How Accurate? - Counting Civilian Casualties: Business as Usual - The Pentagon Makes Civilian Casualties Disappear 9. Dodging the Terrorism Label - The Politics of Defining Terrorism - The Instrument of Political Socialization - Imaging Terrorism - The Politics of Linguicide - How to Avoid the Terrorism Label When Bombing 10. Terror from the Skies - Is Strategic Bombing Terrorism? - Strategic Bombing as Terrorism - The Real Terrorism Divide - What Must Be Done? Bibliography Index 224 pages, Notes Bibliography Index, Format: Metric Demy Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten)<

2006, ISBN: 184277543X

[EAN: 9781842775431], Neubuch, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom], Language: English. Brand new Book. Presenting a global history of aerial bombardment, this book shows how c… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781842775431], Neubuch, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom], Language: English. Brand new Book. Presenting a global history of aerial bombardment, this book shows how certain European powers initiated aerial bombardment of civilians after World War I, and how it was an instrument of choice in World War II. Beau Grosscup shows that such methods, used initially as a means of terrorizing native populations in Africa and the Middle East, have become the primary form of terrorism in more recent decades. While such 'strategic terror' is not classed as 'terrorism' in the West, this reflects an unwillingness to confront the human costs and immorality of aerial bombardment. Grosscup argues that if terrorism is to be diminished, the role of aerial bombing in sustaining global violence must be recognized., Books<

ISBN: 9781842775431

Presenting a global history of aerial bombardment, this book shows how certain European powers initiated aerial bombardment of civilians after World War I, and how it was an instrument of… Mehr…

Presenting a global history of aerial bombardment, this book shows how certain European powers initiated aerial bombardment of civilians after World War I, and how it was an instrument of choice in World War II. Beau Grosscup shows that such methods, used initially as a means of terrorizing native populations in Africa and the Middle East, have become the primary form of terrorism in more recent decades.While such 'strategic terror' is not classed as 'terrorism' in the West, this reflects an unwillingness to confront the human costs and immorality of aerial bombardment. Grosscup argues that if terrorism is to be diminished, the role of aerial bombing in sustaining global violence must be recognized. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>World History>World Hist>World History, Bloomsbury Academic Core >1<

2006, ISBN: 9781842775431

The Politics and Ethics of Aerial Bombardment, Buch, Softcover, [PU: Zed Books Ltd], Zed Books Ltd, 2006