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Strategic terror : the politics and ethics of aerial bombardment /
Strategic bombardments, either aimed explicitly at civilians or deployed in circumstances where extensive civilian deaths are written off as collateral damage or accidental, are becoming increasingly common. This book shows how certain European colonial powers, notably Britain, initiated aerial bomb...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : London ; New York :
SIRD ; Zed Books,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Strategic bombardments, either aimed explicitly at civilians or deployed in circumstances where extensive civilian deaths are written off as collateral damage or accidental, are becoming increasingly common. This book shows how certain European colonial powers, notably Britain, initiated aerial bombardment of civilians after World War I, how it was an instrument of choice in World War II, and how it has since been refined and practised by the US in Korea, Vietnam, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. It exposes the rationalizations put forward to avoid the label of?state terrorism?, the race, g. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781848130845 1848130848 1281215724 9781281215727 |