"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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They lied about the effectiveness of German
bombing at the start of WW2, to justify a counter offensive.

Wrong. The USAAF part of the CBO was born out of AWPD-1, first drafted in
1938. The only thing the USAAF can be accused of was too easily dismissing
the
German failure in the Battle of Britain when they revised AWPD-1 in late
1940.
According to most air power experts of that time period, Germany failed
because
their bombers were ill equipped to the task. They were correct in that
regard,
but they let that explain away everything and literally learned no lessons
from
the Battle of Britain.

I was think of the RAF, however, the main lesson of the BoB was that bombing
was not as effective as had been expected. As far as I can tell the USAAF
did not learn this lesson.

Throughout WW2
they lied about the effectiveness of their bombing to justify throwing
good
resources after bad.

Wrong again. They had a real time intelligence problem with attempting to
analyze exactly the results of their bombing. They had excellent photo
recon
and excellent SIGINT due to Ultra, but a hard time correlating the 2. 60
years
later, we are still struggling with this, albeit not nearly as bad.

Again I was thinking of the RAF, bomb damage assessment in the early days of
night bombing were mostly wishful thinking and was subsequently proved to be
wildly optimistic. BDA did improve as the war progressed, but by then
people were committed to the bombing offensive and so there was less need to
lie.