• World Police for World Peace: British Internationalism and the Threat of a Knock-out Blow from the Air, 1919-1945

    Author(s):
    Brett Holman (see profile)
    Date:
    2010
    Subject(s):
    Diplomatic history, Technology, History, Military history, Great Britain, History, Modern
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    History of technology, Modern British history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/geey-ha93
    Abstract:
    This paper argues that the remarkably widespread enthusiasm in Britain after 1918 for an international air force was due to a confluence of two factors: the long-standing liberal belief that international law could prevent war, and the emergence of a new theory of warfare which claimed that the bomber was a weapon which could not be defended against. The origins of the international air force concept in the 1920s, its apogee in the 1930s, and its decline (and revival) in the Second World War are examined, showing that its fortunes rose and fell with internationalism and the knock-out blow.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1177/0968344510365227
    Publisher:
    SAGE Publications
    Pub. Date:
    2010-6-28
    Journal:
    War in History
    Volume:
    17
    Issue:
    3
    Page Range:
    313 - 332
    ISSN:
    0968-3445,1477-0385
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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