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There is plenty to be gained militarily by destroying the factories and workers that produce the bombs,bullets,fuel and equipment,even the food, of the enemy.

Old time navies intercepted and captured or sunk commercial shipping to cripple the enemy economy.Aircraft just extended the reach.

If we must fight then we should fight to win.

As a matter of fact I favor the overwhelming “scare the livin’ hell out of ‘em” response to attacks on America.
And target in this order:enemy offensive military forces,enemy politicians,enemy defensive forces,transportation,enemy factories producing military goods, enemy power plants,fuel of all types,civilian communications ,food storage and processing and so on until they surrender unconditionally.Germany and japan surrendered unconditionally and were reborn as decent modern nations.All the other halfway wars just perpetuated rotten systems.

There is plenty to be gained militarily by destroying the factories and workers that produce the bombs,bullets,fuel and equipment,even the food, of the enemy.

By war's end, our production was utterly overwhelming; tens of thousands of plans, dozens of aircraft carriers.

If there is no army left, that materiel is useless.

Their navy would not be able to transport any supplies to forces on other islands. The materiel would just pile up.

The accuracy of our air force in bombing is often cited as a reason for being unable to bomb military targets, such as such weapons stockpiles.

But as I've said before, air supremecy is key. If bombers meet no resistence, they can come in low enough on a clear day to be very accurate. That means not 20,000 ft, not 10,000 ft, that means 1,200 feet, 1,500 feet, good visibility, not to much wind. If 5,000 dive bombers came and did low-level attacks all day, with no disturbance from any enemy fighters because we had 1,000 P-51s in the air at the same time, they'd have eliminated whatever they were attacking.

This is exactly what our military has been doing since the first Gulf War over 20 years ago, they just don't need as many bombers because they have very few targets, relatively, and they are very accurate. Our air forces keep our ground forces safe, and the same tactics were well-known in WWII.

If any time you get a battalion-strength outfit all in one place and start moving towards the enemy ground positions, airplanes come over and bomb them to bits, it's tough to fight.