An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. In the years leading up to World War II, a small group of renegade pilots-the "Bomber Mafia"-at a sleepy air force base in Alabama proposed a radical idea: what if bombing could be so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air, sparing the brutal clashes of ground armies?