[Prodigal Son]

Germany didn't quit after Dresden. That's the whole point to effects based warfare. It's been borne out that raw brutal bombing only strengthens the will of the opposition. The Japanese would've fought on after the atomic bombs as well had the emperor not interceded.

[ARCADIA]

It's been borne out that raw brutal bombing only strengthens the will of the opposition.

It does for a while; then it wearies; then it surrenders. It has also been borne out that we have won few clear cut victories since the Second World War. War has to be brutal enough to clear out the diehard fanatics, and to totally discredit their point of view.