POINTBLANK: A Strategic and National Security Decision making Analysis of the World War II Combined Bomber Offensive

Abstract

POINTBLANK was the code for the British-American Combined Bomber Offensive of World War II, a campaign that was mandated by the 1943 Allied Casablanca Directive and carried out from May 1944 to April 1945. POINTBLANK has become almost mythical in today's Air Force as the campaign that proved the decisiveness of air power in war and consequently led to the establishment of the Air Force as a separate Service in 1947. With the legacy of notoriety and importance, an analysis of POINTBLANK could be expected to produce national security decision making and strategic insights of general applicability to policy makers and strategists alike, if such insights are to be gleaned from any WW II campaign.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA247992

Entities

People

  • George E. Crowder

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Aircrafts
  • Bomber Aircraft
  • Bombing
  • Continents
  • Doctrine
  • Economic Systems
  • National Security
  • Public Opinion
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • Strategic Bombing
  • Transportation
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.