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    The Bomber Mafia were a close-knit group of American military men who believed that long-range heavy bomber aircraft in large numbers were able to win...
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  • The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War is a 2021 book by Malcolm Gladwell that examines the US Bomber Mafia...
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    else and require greater time for promotions. With the release of The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War...
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  • Riccioni, an Air Force member of Italian heritage, was a rejoinder to the "Bomber Mafia". In the 1960s, both the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy were in the process...
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  • Sicilian Mafia, the original "Mafia", often referred to simply as "the Mafia" American Mafia, an Italian-American offshoot of the original Sicilian Mafia often...
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    included American Major Claire Chennault, who argued against the so-called "Bomber Mafia" at the Air Corps Tactical School, and Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey...
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    airpower. With eight colleagues at the ACTS, he was a member of the "Bomber Mafia," whose influence led to adoption of the theory as the doctrine of daylight...
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  • (Kindle) Pages 400 ISBN 0316478520 ISBN 978-0316478526 (first hardcover edition) Preceded by David and Goliath, 2013  Followed by The Bomber Mafia, 2021 ...
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    American bomber theorists (the so-called Bomber Mafia) wanted to create vast fleets of heavy bombers. They insisted formations of heavy bombers with multiple...
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    articles on the subject and becoming part of a clique known as the "Bomber Mafia" that argued for the primacy of bombardment over other forms of military...
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