Bombing Campaign

Strategic Bombing - History and Origins - Cold War
... Nuclear weapons defined strategic bombing during the Cold War ... The age of the massive strategic bombing campaign had come to an end ... Strategic bombing by the Great Powers also became politically indefensible ...

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet - Biography - Second World War
... the British had simply not explored the concept of offensive bombing, and had in no way prepared for it ... he had studied new theories of offensive bombing developed by Germany in Spain and in the early years of World War II, and was convinced of the effectiveness of a concentrated ... presented a seminal paper to Cabinet advocating the area bombing of German cities in a strategic bombing campaign ...

Fall Of Mazari Sharif - Bombing Campaign
... for battle, American forces launched a bombing campaign through November 7–8, as B-52 bombers bombed Taliban defenders concentrated in the Chesmay-e-Safa gorge that marked the southern ... It was one of the heaviest bombings of the war to that point ...

1995 NATO Bombing Campaign In Bosnia And Herzegovina
... Krivaja '95 and Stupčanica '95 Operation Summer '95 Operation Storm 1995 NATO bombing campaign Operation Mistral Operation Sana Yugoslav Wars Breakup of Yugoslavia Slovenia Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina ... The bombing campaign was also roughly conterminous in time with Operation Mistral, two linked military offensives of the Croatian Army, Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Croatian ...

Operation Rolling Thunder - End of The Line - Opposition
... the administration continuously opposed the Joint Chief's recommendations for an increased tempo of bombing and the loosening of target restrictions ... They continuously claimed that the campaign was working, yet they also had to continuously demand greater latitude in order to make the campaign succeed ... On 9 August 1967 the Senate Armed Services Committee opened hearings on the bombing campaign ...