1920s

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Air defence, Before 1900, Books, Civil defence, Poetry, Thesis

The dragon will always get through — III

Let’s turn now to Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Smaug’s attack on Lake-town (Esgaroth).1 In my PhD thesis I identified six characteristics of the ideal theory of the knock-out blow from the air: it would be a surprise attack, on a large scale, which would strike at the interdependent structures and civilian morale of its targets,

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