#source/book📚/ingested The story of the invention of Napalm, designed to inflict maximum damage in Japan based on the construction of their cities. The term describes the group within the US Airforce which believes that they can win the war with precision bombing. [[Cognitive Dissonance]] occurs when the evidence is they cannot with current technology actually bomb precisely. The British, alternatively, use carpet bombing against civilians. Curtis Lemay led the firebombing of Japan because that was the approach available to him. Haywood Hansel believed in precision bombing. Precision bombing is what we have now, so in the long run it won, but the world wasn’t ready for it yet. Gladwell, M. (2021). _The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War_. Hachette UK. ISBN: 9781735803227 [[2022-02-06]]