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2015
Overview
The air-atomic concept that drove American air strategy for the two decades after World War II did not spring into being fully formed. Rather, like any complex body of thought, it emerged from several wellsprings. Although the genealogy of airpower ideas can be traced back to antiquity, this chapter’s purpose is more modest. It will show the links between airpower thinking before 1939, subsequent wartime experience, and the first postwar conceptions of atomic warfare. This entire span of ideas was within the living memory of the postwar Air Force’s generals and senior thinkers, and formed the context into which they
