Thomas Hippler
Autore di Governing from the Skies: A Global History of Aerial Bombing
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Thomas Hippler is a research associate in the Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of Wa r at Oxford University, and an Emmy-Noether fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).
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- Data di nascita
- 1972
- Sesso
- male
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- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Caen, France
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As for my question, it appears that Douhet had enough authority in the early Fascist regime, and was sufficiently tendentious, that he was a net detriment to the development of effective Italian air power; particularly since that a force executing his theories would have required a lot more resources than Rome could have afforded. Hippler sees a vibrant environment of debate; I see a failure to generate a viable doctrine in a timely fashion. This is not to mention that Douhet seems to have had a rather weak technological vision, and seriously underestimated the development of the fighter interceptor, and what that would mean for his all-singing, all-dancing, "battleplane," which was the practical instrument of his theories (basically an improved version of the Caproni bombers that Douhet was familiar with). The battleplane turned out just to be a bomber-sized aircraft that did nothing well; at least in the French execution of the concept.
It has been observed that it took nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to really achieve the strategic impact that Douhet envisioned, and that the "bomber will always get through" crowd feared. Also, at the end of the day, popular will turned out to be a lot stronger than Douhet imagined, and it's on that reality the more expansive elements of his vision floundered on. Still, someone has to be first, and Douhet has that honor, as the prophet of strategic airpower, but there is a certain mystique to the man's name that seems unjustified.… (altro)