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The RAF, empire and strategic bombing 1918-39

Explaining History
Explaining History
Episode • Jun 30, 2019 • 24m
In the inter war years as air policy developed in Britain, 'air policing' of the British Empire was a strategy adopted by the RAF in order to wage aerial warfare against colonised peoples in Africa and Asia. The same principals were applied later to Germany, in the flawed belief that strategic bombing would work in a similar way

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