What if the US had a different president who refused to attack any non military targets? To include factories.
What if the US had a different president who refused to attack any non military targets? To include factories.
What if the US had a different president who refused to attack any non military targets? To include factories.
Maybe the 8th Air Force goes directly for POL and Electricity generation as well as canal chokepoints and railheads?
War ends in early 1944 at the latest then.
What if the US had a different president who refused to attack any non military targets? To include factories.
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The bombing of rail/canal viaducts and tunnels would have seriously impacted the ability to move coal around the country via barge and railways.
Even if you limit targets to say transportation, most major rail hubs, bridges, and othet logistics nodes tended to be in or near population centers. Given the technology of the time, when they literally had to drop dozens of bombs to maybe land one direct hit, and given how extensive some targets like raid yards are, avoiding collateral damage is essentially impossible.
... It's easy to talk about avoiding civilians or collateral damage today with JDAM, Tomahawk, and other advanced weapons with near pinpoint accuracy. ....
Maybe the 8th Air Force goes directly for POL and Electricity generation
Is this an allusion to the “stab-in-the-back myth” after the First World War? While I agree that seeing their home city blown to smithereens would make someone feel beaten, I don’t think it’s necessary. Demanding unconditional surrender and then occupying the entire country should be enough.I have a gut suspicion that, in a true existential conflict like WWII, actually achieving a victory that leads to a peace that lasts more than 20 years or so, you have to make the enemy population FEEL beaten. Not 'stabbed in the back' by X's and Y's, but physically unable to carry on any sort of conflict. In that sense, it may actually be necessary to cause massive casualties among 'civilians' as well as military. Sucks doesn't it?