Post-Galbraoith Warfare- Bombing can win wars

[Michael Perelman]

No, it is not all right.  The Dresden-Hiroshima came late in the game
after the war was pretty well lost.

On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:21:16AM -0500, Michael Pollak wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
> 
> > WW II bombing was mostly directed at military sites;
> 
> Michael, I don't think this is at all right.  The main strategic goal of
> strategic bombing was enemy morale, and their main targets were not
> civilian infrastructure but civilians themselves: Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo,
> Hiroshima.
> 
> The American talked about economic chokepoints for much of the war, but
> after that didn't work and once they had air control they acted exactly
> like the RAF.  The Allies dropped 2,700,000 tons of bombs on Germany; 72
> percent were dropped between July 1, 1944 and the collapse of Germany. And
> the major weapon during that period was the incendary bomb.  We were
> intentionally slaughtering civilians to make them give up, pure and
> simple.  The conclusion drawn after the war was that it didn't work. Any
> more than it V-2's made Londoners want to give up.
> 
> Well, okay, Hiroshima and Nagasaki worked.  But they're the exception that
> proves the rule.
> 
> Michael
> 
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Michael Perelman
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