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During the inter-war years the conventional wisdom, forcibly expressed by the then-Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, had been that there was no defence against aerial attack other than having a greater force than the enemy.

‘It is well also for the man in the street to realise,’ he told Parliament in 1932, ‘that there is no power on earth that can prevent him from being bombed. Whatever people may tell him, the bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.’