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- From: holthaus@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (James R. Holthaus)
- Subject: Re: B2s v. carrier task force
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- Keywords: B2s, Carriers
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- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:42:17 GMT
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- From holthaus@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (James R. Holthaus)
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- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us writes:
- >From mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- >In article <C17w89.FrF@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, Gary Coffman <gary%ke4zv.uucp@mathcs.emory.edu> writes:
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- >Is this entirely true? My readings about WWII indicate there there were
- >one or two classes of targets against whic strategic bombing was effective,
- >the first being refineries, fuel depots, oilfields, and such, and the
- >second being large railroad yards, vital crossings, and bridges. Aren't
- >these still valid strategic targets?
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- Well, German industrial production peaked in 1944. So much for the
- strategic bombing idea. Bombing supply lines is interdiction--a different
- goal than strategic bombing.
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- >In Iraq, the coalition disabled large parts of the electrical and telephone
- >networks, apparently to some benefit. Is this considered strategic or not?
-
- Generally military organizations will have their own methods of
- communication and power generation not connected to the civilian methods.
- Bombing the power grid certainly hurts the civilians, but the impact on
- the military's ability to fight should be minimal. Same, too, with
- attacking the phone system.
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- It all depends on what you consider ethical in waging war. Do you bomb
- the sewage treatment plant to reduce morale by making civilians vulnerable
- to cholera?
- --
- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more * Jim Holthaus
- complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of * james-holthaus@uiowa.edu
- genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the *
- opposite direction." -- E. F. Schumacher *
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