Air war question

[Mike Abberton]

Occam's Razor implies that given equal possibilities, the simpler explanantion with less assumptions is usually the correct one.

So von Egan, you're saying the simpler, more obvious reason for strategic bombing was a behind the scenes method of prolonging the war so that American corporations could rake in extra cash. And I am assuming that the British must have been in cahoots to add to US corporations bottom line (or perhaps naive enough to believe that the US was "trying to help") since they had their own strategic bomber campaign. Was the rest of the US/UK Army, Navy, etc. in on it, too, or just the USAAF? Or am I summing up your theory inaccurately?

Wouldn't a simpler explanation be that airpower in general, and strategic bombing in particular, was such a new idea that the technology and the doctrine just hadn't caught up to the concept, yet?

Mike