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pompack -> RE: Aircraft Weapons, their Pro Allied slant in WiTP (9/21/2005 11:05:07 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl
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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
Looking this up: "In a tone of despair, the British prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, had said in 1932, "The bombers will always get through.""
It does figure that a statement this sweeping and this wrong would have to be made by a politician with NO actual espertise on the subject. But at least it inspired RAF Fighter Command to develop the equipment and doctrine to prove him wrong---so it did some good in the long run.
But Mike, he was only expressing what his own experts, the RAF senior commanders, were telling him. They were taking that position to expand their share of the budget, but the pre-war "Bomber Barons" (to use a phrase from a few years later) really believed it. The studies predicting 100,000 civilian dead the first week were RAF studies based upon scaling up the WWI Zepplin (sp[&:]) raids on Britain. They were pushing a MAD strategy two decades before advancing technolgy made it feasible (if that is the word to describe MAD[8|]).
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