A Modest Proposal for The Empire

[Bradford DeLong]

>On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Bradford DeLong wrote:
>
>>  Up until June 1944, every Nazi artillery piece inside the Reich
>>  pointing skyward to try to defend German cities against Allied
>>  terror-bombing was one artillery piece fewer on the Russian front.
>
>That's an interesting choice of date.  According to James L. Stokesbury in
>_A Short History of World War II_ (p. 284), 72 percent of Allied bombs
>were dropped between July 1, 1944 and the collapse of Germany -- i.e.,
>just after your crucial date.

Yeah. Once you actually have a second front in northwest Europe, the 
argument for continuing *strategic* bombing (given that they had a 
lot of firepower but very little aiming power) becomes much weaker...

Brad DeLong