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Arthur Harris demanded that Winston Churchill provided more resources for Bomber Command. Along with Charles Portal he argued that if he had 6,000 bombers at his disposal he would force the German government to surrender and there would be no need for an Allied invasion of Europe.
To quote John Kenneth Galbraith, the former ambassador to India, " Strategic Bombing was designed to destroy the industrial base of the enemy and the morale of its people. It did neither."
Just supposing Bomber Command was never brought into being. Just Coastal, Tactical and Fighter commands. With the same level of aircraft production, is the course of the war diverted much? Would less aircraft be demanded? Less money spent or more of something else?
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