Word: douhetting
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...deathly civil war last week as Barcelona, the Leftist Capital in which the Rightists claim there are "180 purely military objectives," suffered four big raids within 33 hours. Casualties announced: 200 dead and wounded. Since the original heavy bombing of Barcelona (at which time many observers thought the modern "Douhet Theory" of demoralizing, unrestricted air warfare was being applied for the first time) Rightist Air Force Commander General Alfredo Kindelan has written an article entitled Clipped Wings. In this, General Kindelan boldly grumbled against his superior Generalissimo Francisco Franco, declared that had the Rightist Air Force only been permitted...
Twelve years ago air force chiefs throughout the world were gripped, fascinated by Mastery of the Air, a book by Italian General of Aviation Giulio Douhet. He has since died, but Mastery of the Air has become the standard text of thousands of young air officers in every land who hold with what is called "the Douhet theory." In effect this teaches that the civilian population of an attacked country, their homes, shops and municipal services, have become main military objectives of today-since aviation now permits an invading army to wage much of the war behind the enemy...
...warning scream, such as an artillery shell gives. There was just a "swiss" and instantaneously thereafter the crash of 600 pounds of bomb tearing down through floor after floor of a building by its own weight, then the dull, shuddering, colossal detonation from the cellar. In accordance with Douhet, the objective was considered to be the whole city: the shattering of the morale of its people and the Leftist Government. Thus no particular targets were aimed at and every quarter of Barcelona, slums, palatial avenues, business quarters and parks, received the bombs...