Nope. The book I'm thinking of I got at a used
bookstore four or five years ago, and was pretty much
a straight military history of air campaigns.
tim
--- James Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:57 AM 11/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >Somewhere I have a book about the history of
> bombing
> >
>Michael Perelman wrote:
> > Leahy did not understand that the bomb was dropped as a message to the
> > USSR.
Rob wrote:
>Well, that was certainly a salient component, Michael. I think bloodless
>technocratic 'ecologically valid field-testing' was tragically part of it,
>too. But let's have a
At 11:57 AM 11/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Somewhere I have a book about the history of bombing
>civilians, can't seem to find it or remember who wrote
>it...
could it be the following?
Lindqvist, Sven 2001 A history of bombing New York : New Press :
Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.
there was an i
--- Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In 1991, Workers Vanguard did an excellent article
> on the history of
> U.S. terror bombing. An excerpt:
> [...] The
> >carpetbombing of Vietnam only continued the U.S.
> forces' "scorched earth"
> >policy in Korea, the firebombing campaign in
>
battle for hearts and minds
by Tim Bousquet
12 November 2001
--- Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >the bombing of Japan was primarily
>aimed at civilians -- even
>before Hiroshima -- and almost everybody knows it.
>
Alas, not true. The Publisher of the local corporate
daily
Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> Leahy did not understand that the bomb was dropped as a message to the
> USSR.
Well, that was certainly a salient component, Michael. I think bloodless
technocratic 'ecologically valid field-testing' was tragically part of it,
too. But let's have a little empathy fo
>Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, told a news conference in India
this week that the war would not take years. The week before, at a briefing
in the Pentagon, he had compared the bombing of Afghanistan to that of Japan
in the second world war, the point being that the latter had taken more
to instigate a "clash of civilizations,"
despite words to the contrary
-Original Message-
From: Sabri Oncu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:18 AM
To: PEN-L
Subject: [PEN-L:19464] America is losing the battle for hearts and minds
The battle for he
assuring, even
in the United States. There, concern focuses not on the war but on the
confused official reaction to the anthrax outbreak. Support for military
action remains sky-high. Beyond its own shores, however, America is losing
the battle for hearts and minds. In Europe, support for the war is
