[nuconvert]

What you want, and reality, may be 2 different things.

You're talking about how we used to fight and how we may fight in the future. I was talking about the reality of how we fight now. May not like it, but that's the way it is.

Thanx for the post, I'll read it more thoroughly later.

[LibWhacker]

Here's the crucial passage:

All the old problems - the weather, the enemy fighters, the jet stream, the high-altitude wear on the engines, political limitations on bombing civilians - were now irrelevant. There was to be no public objection to LeMay's burning down the industrial and residential center of the Japanese empire - too many stories about Japanese atrocities toward subjugated peoples and prisoners of war had filtered back to the American people.

Don't think it can't happen again.