 Many theorists imagined that a future war would be won entirely by the destruction of the enemy's military and industrial capability from the air.The Italian general Giulio Douhet, author of "The Command of the Air", was a seminal theorist of that school of thought.Before World War I, H. G. Wells's novel "The War in the Air" concluded that aerial warfare could never be "won" in such a manner as bombing, but in 1936, he depicted a war starting suddenly with devastating air attacks on "Everytown" in the film "Things to Come".