Congratulations to Gregory Ball of San Antonio, Texas, who is the winner of our Register to Win drawing from the Society of Military History Conference (SMH). Gregory won the book Beneficial Bombing by Mark Clodfelter.

In Beneficial Bombing, Clodfelter describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I’s trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas, with the heavy bomber as their solution to limiting the bloodshed. The book examines this progressive idealism, which led to the creation of the U.S. Air Force and its doctrine that precision bombing would end wars more quickly and with less suffering. Clodfelter presents the most complete analysis ever of the doctrinal development underpinning current U.S. Air Force notions about strategic bombing.