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Here is a good critique of the concept of strategic airpower: https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower-101/ https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/co

Here is a good critique of the concept of strategic airpower: https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower-101/ https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower... Axis production continued increasing, according to this, it tripled after the bombing campaign started.

pfdietz 2y ago
Which, of course, proves nothing. What matters is how much it would have increased without the bombing. Actually, it's even worse than that, since one must also subtract from this production the resources Germany was putting into air defense. This effort was massive.
- shmeeed 2y ago
  Did you read the ACOUP article? I remember reading it when it was published, and it changed my mind on the topic.
  - pfdietz 2y ago
    I did. He was critiquing theories that airpower could win wars. This doesn't mean airpower can't help win a war. There's a large space between "useless" and "all important". The Germans ended up devoting 1/4 of their war production and a million men to antiaircraft defense.