[af_vet_rr]

They have the same problem as we do. Neither of us fight the way we should anymore. You must crush your enemy. None of this non proportional response worries.

William Tecumseh Sherman, Sir Arthur Harris, and many others would have been prosecuted for war crimes in this day and age.

The Brits were saying this in 1941 about bombing Germany:

"The ultimate aim of an attack on a town area is to break the morale of the population which occupies it. To ensure this, we must achieve two things: first, we must make the town physically uninhabitable and, secondly, we must make the people conscious of constant personal danger. The immediate aim, is therefore, twofold, namely, to produce (i) destruction and (ii) fear of death."

[EEGator]

That is the only way war should be fought in my opinion. Turn everything around Israel into Dresden.

[MarkL]

They have the same problem as we do. Neither of us fight the way we should anymore. You must crush your enemy. None of this non proportional response worries.

William Tecumseh Sherman, Sir Arthur Harris, and many others would have been prosecuted for war crimes in this day and age.

As I recall, Curtis Lamay said that had the allies lost the war, he would have been prosecuted for "war crimes" as well.

Mark

[redgolum]

Goring asked that “Bomber” Harris and LeMay be tried with him. He said that they committed war crimes against French and German civilians in the bombing campaigns.

In many ways, he was right. The tactic was called “Terror Bombing”, and was a spectacular failure in it's stated goal #2. Moral increased, because the towns really started to hate the Allied air forces.