"The Bomber Mafia," describes the disastrous failure of precision bombing in the European theater during WWII, and its replacement with widescale bombing/burning of entire cities in Japan. But most German cities were leveled. How did this happen with precision bombing? Or did the British do it all? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

"The Bomber Mafia," describes the disastrous failure of precision bombing in the European theater during WWII, and its replacement with widescale bombing/burning of entire cities in Japan. But most German cities were leveled. How did this happen with precision bombing? Or did the British do it all?

by RusticBohemian

CaptainRhino

I haven't read that book so I don't know what argument Gladwell makes, but there was firebombing of German cities by the RAF and USAAF.

u/wotan_weevil writes about the firestorm in Dresden here