A war’s conclusion can impact strategic thinking even when the outcome is misinterpreted or an outlier. For a century, Giulio Douhet in Command of the Air, 1921 and a 1926 revision, has been the prophet for the utilitarian morality of bombing cities to gain decisive victory. His earlier work, Winged Victory: How the Great War Ended, written in 1918, has been ignored where he argued for the interdiction of enemy lines of communication. His theory changes by how the Great War ends with the collapse of the German population’s will. Had it ended differently, he could have reached a different conclusion that could have impacted the development of air power theory in the twentieth century.

即使结果被误解或异常，战争的结论也会影响战略思维。一个世纪以来，朱利奥·杜黑 (Giulio Douhet) 1921 年和 1926 年修订的《指挥空中》一直是轰炸城市的功利道德获得决定性胜利的先知。他早期的作品《有翼的胜利：大战如何结束》写于 1918 年，在他主张阻断敌方通讯线路的地方被忽视。他的理论随着大战如何以德国民众意志的崩溃而结束而改变。如果它以不同的方式结束，他可能会得出不同的结论，这可能会影响 20 世纪空中力量理论的发展。