Bomber mafia was a group of insurgent pilots at the air or tactical school, were known as the bomber maffe. Historian robert pape wrote a book called bombing to win about the origins of many of the ideas taught at the air school. The bombramafia gave lectures to select groups of officers arguing theorizing they are not really investigating the psychology of bombing. And do they imagine that a group of well equipped bombers could bring the united states, or at least new york city, to its kneed in an event of any kind of conflict? Yes, absolutely.