There was also in both Britain and the United States a real attraction for the idea that air warfare was a more modern and efficient form of fighting than the recent experience of a grueling and costly land war. Since both were democracies, with political elites sensitive to popular anxieties and expectations, airpower was intended to reduce the human cost of war on the ground. Arthur Harris famously argued that the army would fail next time to find “sufficient morons willing to be sacrificed in a mud war in Flanders,” but for Germany, France, or the Soviet Union, a ground army and effective
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