Ok, from the NG website for the B-21, here is part of their sales job for why the craft is going to be called the “Raider”:

According to the Air Force, “the Doolittle Raiders are known for their surprise attack against Japan during World War II on April 18, 1942, which forced the Japanese to recall combat forces for home defense and boosted morale among Americans and U.S. allies abroad.

That little blurb demonstrates so well how reality, and the truth about reality, gets massaged to sales thing.

Here’s the Wikipedia entry for the Doolittle raid:

On the ground the raid killed about 50 people and injured 400. Damage to Japanese military and industrial targets was slight, but the raid had major psychological effects. In the United States, it raised morale. In Japan, it raised fear and doubt about the ability of military leaders to defend the home islands, but the bombing and strafing of civilians steeled Japanese resolve to gain retribution - this was exploited for propaganda purposes.[4] The raid also pushed forward Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s plans to attack Midway Island in the Central Pacific - an attack that turned into a decisive defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) by the US Navy in the Battle of Midway. The consequences of the Doolittle Raid were most severely felt in China: in reprisal for the raid, the Japanese launched the Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign, killing 250,000 civilians and 70,000 soldiers.

The Doolittle Raid was much like Iraq War II - revenge. In the case of Doolittle it was revenge for Pearl Harbor. In Iraq II it was just general anger at Arabs for 9/11.

The ultimate effect of the Doolittle Raid was just more killing of civilians.

And I propose that is all the B-21 can ever be. A war machine for more war.