Precision Aerial Bombardment of Strategic Targets: Its Rise, Fall, And Resurrection‪.‬

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Air power theorists expect technology to follow them, and translate their ideas into reality. Sometimes, however, theory cannot be practiced, because it outruns technology. In that case, the theory must be modified to fit what is practicable. Sometimes technology leads theory, instead of the other way around. Such was the case of aerial bombardment in the twentieth century.