The American Experience of War Before the First World War

Before the first world war, America was involved in a kind of small policing interventions. The americans came up with an idea called industrial web theory which was more colloquially known as precision bombing doctrine. Now you can go through the archives and have a look at actually the tests. And er, it doesn't achieve anywhere near as this er. But for me, what's fascinating is that the ambition to have these uncrude aerial vehicles the mitigate the need to put human life at risk has never been achieved.