轰炸机黑手党
The Bomber Mafia
Malcolm Gladwell · 初版 2021 年
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为什么值得读
- 讲述无差别轰炸与精确轰炸的教条博弈
- 叙事节奏极佳，故事性与趣味性强
- 聚焦历史人物并探讨军事战术抉择
“Malcolm Gladwell 将一位荷兰天才及其自制计算机、亚拉巴马州中部的一群生死兄弟、一名英国精神病患者以及哈佛大学纵火狂化学家的故事交织在一起，审视了现代美国历史上最严峻的道德挑战之一。在第二次世界大战爆发前的几年里，大多数军事思想家都将飞机视为次要的辅助手段。但一小群理想主义战略家却持不同看法。这群‘轰炸机黑手党’（Bomber Mafia）提出质疑：如果精确轰炸仅仅通过摧毁关键瓶颈——工业或交通枢纽——就能瘫痪敌人并使……”
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马尔科姆·格拉德威尔（Malcolm Gladwell）在他的新书《轰炸机黑手党》（The Bomber Mafia）里写了一段相当有意思的关于柯蒂斯·李梅（LeMay）的历史 https://www.pushkin.fm/audiobook/bomber-mafia/
Malcolm Gladwell published a pretty interesting history on LeMay in his new book The Bomber Mafia https://www.pushkin.fm/audiobook/bomber-mafia/
马尔科姆·格拉德威尔写过一本好书叫《轰炸机黑手党》（The Bomber Mafia），讲的全是空军主张用无差别轰炸击垮平民意志的条令，以及空军内部主张用高精度轰炸取而代之的叛逆派系。通过瘫痪工业来代替……
There's a good book by Malcolm Gladwell called "the bomber mafia" that's all about the airforce doctrine of indiscriminate bombing to break the population and the rebel faction within the airforce who advocated high precision bombing instead. Crippling industry instead…
顺便提一句——我刚看完《轰炸机黑手党》，觉得读起来很有趣也很过瘾。跟他以往那种“快餐式自作聪明”（Pop-Smart）类型的书不太一样。他是一个非常引人入胜的作家，很会讲故事——绝对有值得借鉴的……
As an aside - I just finished "The Bomber Mafia" and found it to be a very fun and interesting read. A departure from his "Pop-Smart" type books in the past. He's a very entertaining writer, and effective at telling stories - definitely lessons to…
> 唯一的问题是，格拉德威尔的叙述根本经不起严谨的推敲。作为一篇文学作品，《轰炸机黑手党》引人入胜；但作为历史著作，它几乎到了鲁莽草率的地步。抛开大量的史实和解读错误不谈，格拉德威尔总是在史料中搞选择性采信。无论是有意还是无意，……
>The only issue is that Gladwell’s account doesn’t withstand serious scrutiny. As a piece of writing, The Bomber Mafia is engaging. As a work of history, it borders on reckless. Setting aside the numerous errors of fact and interpretation, Gladwell consistently cherry-picks from the historical record. Wittingly or not,…
是的，我记得他关于这个做了好几期 RH 播客。他还出了一本书：《轰炸机黑手党：一个源于战争的故事》（The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War）。[1] 我想我第一次听说二战期间的东京大轰炸是在埃罗尔·莫里斯（Errol Morris）的纪录片《战争之雾：罗伯特·S·麦克纳马拉一生中的十一堂课》（The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara）里。罗伯特……
Yes, I believe he did multiple RH podcast episodes on this. He has also released a book: "The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War". [1] I think the first I heard of the Tokyo firebombing during WWII was in the Errol Morris documentary: "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Robert…
大家这几年真该对格拉德威尔说的任何话都多留个心眼。《轰炸机黑手党》招来的那通逐句痛批就足以证明这一点了。
People really should be very wary of anything Gladwell says in recent years. The fisking The Bomber Mafia got should be evidence enough.