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Post #91,024
by jake123
3/24/03 10:44:53 AM
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New Bombing is a bad way to break a people's will
WWII demonstrated that... the more the Germans bombed London, the more the English hardened against the Germans.

Japan was a different case, as atomic weapons threaten not just defeat but extinction, and there was little doubt that the US would take that route if they had to. Since it's clear that it's not possible for the US to use nukes, that's not a stick that can be used.

Bombing would on the face of it seem to help break morale, but history generally shows that it does the opposite.
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Post #91,162
by dmarker
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3/24/03 6:41:41 PM
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New Blitz point true until V2 rockets started raining

England was shaken & had to redivert massive effort to stopping & destroying V2 launch sites. Churchill admitted that V2 was the closest UK came to capitulation.

Conventional bombs stiffened their resolve, the V1s shook them but because they could be heard coming most people adjusted. With V2s there was *no* noise, first a building would disintegrate, split second later a blast, then split second after the blast you could hear the whistling sound the rocket had made previously. That was the rattle factor that was effectively harming morale.

Doug


Spectres from our past: Beware the future when your children & theirs come after you for what you may have been willing to condone today - dsm 2003


Motivational: When performing activities, ask yourself if the person you most want to be would do, or say, it - dsm 2003
     the obverse of "shock and awe" - (rcareaga) - (3) - March 24, 2003, 10:29:19 AM EST
         Bombing is a bad way to break a people's will - (jake123) - (1) - March 24, 2003, 10:44:53 AM EST
             Blitz point true until V2 rockets started raining - (dmarker) - March 24, 2003, 06:41:41 PM EST
         Bombing stiffening resistance - (JayMehaffey) - March 25, 2003, 12:49:48 AM EST

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