Air Power Strategy: Why Bombs Don't Always Win Wars

Let me give out your substack URL where people can learn more from you on this topic and it's escalationtrap.substack.com. And here's the latest article right here. Now, Professor, you're you're a full-time tenured professor at the University of Chicago, correct? That's right. Yep. And since 1999. You teach economics in addition to Middle East or what what what do you actually focus on? Uh I teach So my area, Mike, just to be clear because I touch on economics and so forth. My area is uh bombing campaigns, blockades, economic sanctions, international terrorism, and essentially, if you look at our uh wars uh for the last 35 years, these have been the uh tools and the issues in those wars. Okay. And so that what I have done in my uh in my career is I've added layer after layer. So I started out in the uh 90s focusing on air power. My book Bombing to Win studies every air campaign since World War I. It tries to understand when does air power work, when doesn't it work? What is the um uh how much can you get by punishing societies or by trying to topple leaders from air ...