Re: Airpower fails once again
- From: bob matthews <tsaman99@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:26:34 GMT
Jim Yanik wrote:
geoffm@xxxxxxxx (Geoff Miller) wrote in news:tJOdnd6k5-
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hcobb <henry.cobb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Airpower without boots on the ground is empty slaughter
that resolves nothing.
"If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting."
-- Gen Curtis Lemay, USAF
Geoff
--
"I used to be a loser-in-denial, too, until the
lacrosse team shoved a parking cone up my ass."
-- Billy Madison
airpower finished the Japanese in WW2.
It's what brought them to the negotiation table,made them surrender.
Right. Conventional bombing, along with the destruction of Japanese shipping, had pretty much put an end to "effective" resistance. The atomic bombings sped up the capitulation, but even without Olympic, the Japanese would have eventually been starved out.
I agree with those who think that the a-bombs probably saved as many Japanese lives as Allied--certainly the Chinese felt immediate relief.
==bob
It's just that Israel is prevented from using full airpower by public opinion..
MOABs would certainly end Hamas as a fighting force.
Without resorting to nukes.
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