Quote Originally Posted by Umar Al-Mokhtār View Post
a trip to Leavenworth's dusty, musty archives to search for Major Gentile's thesis:

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

Also of interest:

http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/awc/awc...s/mcmullen.pdf

Although this gem: “Advocacy or Assessment? The United States Strategic Bombing Survey of Germany and Japan” is proving a tougher nut to crack.

UAM, thanks for the shout-out. Oh to be a major again, alas those days are long gone. The essay of mine that you provide a link to was a SAMS monograph that parts of it actually became an additional chapter to my dissertation that New York Univerisity Press published into a book in 2001 titled "How Effective is Strategic Bombing? Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo."

Not as big of a seller to be sure as that book about eating soup with a utensil. In fact the darn thing never even went into paperback. Oh well, I guess one book is better than none.

gian