The Strategic and Political Impacts of Collateral Damage from Strike Warfare: Air Campaigns and Bombing Damage in Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo, Target Selection, Ebb and Flow of Limitations

Nonfiction, History, Military, Vietnam War, Asian, Aviation
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Author: Progressive Management ISBN: 9781310173684
Publisher: Progressive Management Publication: March 24, 2016
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Progressive Management
ISBN: 9781310173684
Publisher: Progressive Management
Publication: March 24, 2016
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report examines the strategic and political impacts of collateral damage from strike warfare and strategic bombing. It is hard to argue that there is a more prevailing issue than collateral damage when discussing strike warfare today. The outlook of the United States and other militaries regarding bombing operations, particularly concern about collateral damage, is a historically contingent process. This thesis examines three case studies—the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Kosovo air campaign—to examine the impact of concern about collateral damage on U.S. policy and strategy. It analyzes the disparity between collateral damage effects at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels over the span of a half century.

A significant amount of research on the effects of collateral damage from strike warfare focuses on legal, humanitarian, and moral issues. To oversimplify, killing non-combatants is bad, but it happens, and not always by accident. Therefore, it is instructive to gain knowledge on how it affects policy and strategy. Depending on the conflict and time period, U.S. administrations and war strategists have put the priority of mitigating collateral damage at different levels. Understanding the reasoning and timing behind the political and military attitudes toward collateral damage is helpful to understanding how the potential for civilian casualties fits into military strategy as a whole.
CHAPTER I * INTRODUCTION * A. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESEARCH * B. LITERATURE REVIEW * 1. Korea * 2. Vietnam * 3. Kosovo * C. POTENTIAL EXPLANATIONS * CHAPTER II * THE KOREAN WAR * A. PROXIMITY TO WORLD WAR II * B. THE IMPLICATIONS OF LIMITED WAR * C. THE IMPACT OF OUTSIDE PRESSURE * D. CONCLUSION * CHAPTER III * THE VIETNAM WAR * A. THE AIR CAMPAIGN IN NORTH VIETNAM * B. THE AIR CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH VIETNAM * C. CONCLUSION * CHAPTER IV * THE KOSOVO CONFLICT * A. NEW LIMITS AND NEW CHALLENGES * B. MAINTAINING THE ALLIANCE'S COHESION * C. CONCLUSION * CHAPTER V * CONCLUSION * A. THE FUNCTIONALITY OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE * B. FUTURE IMPLICATIONS

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Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report examines the strategic and political impacts of collateral damage from strike warfare and strategic bombing. It is hard to argue that there is a more prevailing issue than collateral damage when discussing strike warfare today. The outlook of the United States and other militaries regarding bombing operations, particularly concern about collateral damage, is a historically contingent process. This thesis examines three case studies—the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Kosovo air campaign—to examine the impact of concern about collateral damage on U.S. policy and strategy. It analyzes the disparity between collateral damage effects at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels over the span of a half century.

A significant amount of research on the effects of collateral damage from strike warfare focuses on legal, humanitarian, and moral issues. To oversimplify, killing non-combatants is bad, but it happens, and not always by accident. Therefore, it is instructive to gain knowledge on how it affects policy and strategy. Depending on the conflict and time period, U.S. administrations and war strategists have put the priority of mitigating collateral damage at different levels. Understanding the reasoning and timing behind the political and military attitudes toward collateral damage is helpful to understanding how the potential for civilian casualties fits into military strategy as a whole.
CHAPTER I * INTRODUCTION * A. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESEARCH * B. LITERATURE REVIEW * 1. Korea * 2. Vietnam * 3. Kosovo * C. POTENTIAL EXPLANATIONS * CHAPTER II * THE KOREAN WAR * A. PROXIMITY TO WORLD WAR II * B. THE IMPLICATIONS OF LIMITED WAR * C. THE IMPACT OF OUTSIDE PRESSURE * D. CONCLUSION * CHAPTER III * THE VIETNAM WAR * A. THE AIR CAMPAIGN IN NORTH VIETNAM * B. THE AIR CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH VIETNAM * C. CONCLUSION * CHAPTER IV * THE KOSOVO CONFLICT * A. NEW LIMITS AND NEW CHALLENGES * B. MAINTAINING THE ALLIANCE'S COHESION * C. CONCLUSION * CHAPTER V * CONCLUSION * A. THE FUNCTIONALITY OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE * B. FUTURE IMPLICATIONS

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