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Description of  Strategy Without Slide-Rule: British Air Strategy 1914 1939 (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security)

The early history of British aerial defence development is one of misdirection and delusion. The misdirection, judging by the criteria of successful aerial defence in World War II, was primarily in the downgrading of home defence measures including the fighter plane. The delusion, again judging by Britains efforts in that second world war, was primarily in the assumption of the effects to be obtained by strategic bombing. Read more