Ideology’s iron embrace, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 This contrasts notably with the discussion in Weeks (Citation1992).2 One may quibble a bit. The AAF shift to urban bombing occurred after D-Day, preceded by a focus on the Third Reich’s oil infrastructure and, counterintuitively, the German fighter force. The general inaccuracy of bombing, noted by Bessner, did ensure that AAF bombs often intended for industrial targets fell on residential zones instead (Overy Citation2013, 171–230).3 By the account of his aide and friend, Michael Žantovský, violence in the former Soviet republics and resurgent Russian nationalism alarmed him (Žantovský Citation2014, 437–439).Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert RakoveRobert Rakove is a lecturer in International Relations at Stanford University. He is the author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012, and Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion, published by Columbia University Press in 2023.