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it is the 1920s. you are an american war planner convinced the new technology of bombing will bring a swift and decisive end to future wars. it is the 2020s.

In the end, the United States often accepted air power regardless of the merits of specific arguments, leaving us a legacy with which we still grapple.

The diversity of its appeals made the bomber a unique weapon and helped its rise to first place in national strategy and policy. Particular arguments for or against the bomber might come and go, but a host of others was always available. Like most important changes in how nations behave, the rise of American air power rested on arguments whose collective force was greater than the sum of their parts