strategic bombing campaign
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concept
A strategic bombing campaign is a sustained aerial offensive aimed at weakening an enemy’s war-making capacity and morale by targeting key industrial, military, and infrastructural assets rather than solely engaging frontline forces.
Aliases (5)
- aerial bombing campaign ×6
- Allied military campaign ×1
- German strategic bombing campaign ×1
- aerial bombing raid ×1
- strategic bombing ×1
Instances (19)
- The Blitz
- Allied strategic bombing of Japan
- Operation Crossbow ("Allied military campaign")
- atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ("strategic bombing")
- Blitz
- Operation Gomorrah
- Operation Rolling Thunder ("aerial bombing campaign")
- Battle of the Ruhr
- Big Week
- Operation Linebacker ("aerial bombing campaign")
- Battle of Hamburg
- Allied bombing of Germany
- Black Buck raids ("aerial bombing campaign")
- Operation Millennium ("aerial bombing raid")
- Battle of Berlin (air campaign)
- Operation Desert Fox ("aerial bombing campaign")
- Baedeker Blitz ("German strategic bombing campaign")
- NATO bombing of Yugoslavia ("aerial bombing campaign")
- Allied bombing of Hungary ("aerial bombing campaign")