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[Occhidiangela]

To Occhi: Bombing Dresden political? Dresden and several other cities were bombed with the sole purpose of making as many victims as possible. The thought behind this (call it political if you want, to me it is just mass murder) was that with bombing civilians the support for the Nazi's would go down. It has been one of the biggest mistakes the allied forces have been making, and has allready been admitted by mant people that were involved.
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Yes, eppie, political. You know less than nothing of war, your ignorant comment "just mass murder" is beyond comtempt. In a case of Total War, destroying your enemy's industrial capacity is part of how you defeat him. When he has not the means to fight, your chances of ending the war to your favor go up considerably. As a European, how can you not understand Total War? Your civilization perfected it over the course of centuries, the Thirty Years war being a magnificent textbook case. We simple Americans learned it at "your" feet and improved merely in method and technique, where we improved at all.

War is a politcial act of force. When you can wrap your mind around that, we can resume this conversation. A reprisal is a political act in a war. It's strategic aim is political.

Random thought: I once had a professor of Military Theory describe war as "the human race's favorite sport: intramural homicide."

Occhi