Post-Galbraoith Warfare- Bombing can win wars

Max Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Sat Dec 1 07:20:42 PST 2001


I don't have any reason to disagree. My point was that Galbraith's discussion re: WWII is not relevant to the Afghan situation. mbs

Max, the economists were trying to find strategic targets. The army believed in that strategy at the time. While Afgh. has no such targets, Yugoslavia and Iraq did, but the US emphasized civilian infrastructure.

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:30:20PM -0500, Max Sawicky wrote:
> This is a whole different matter. Strategic bombing aimed to
> cripple an advanced economy. It was thought that creating
> key bottlenecks



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