Your Mom Goes to College..... The College of Strategic BombingThe U.S. started their strategic bombing campaign of Japan in 1942 with the Doolittle Raid on April 18, 1942. The original goal and motivation (largely vengeance) was propagated by the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Pacific Campaign. The strategy of strategic bombing, formulated by Italian general Giulio Douhet, utilized tactics such as the bombing of factories rather than infantry and highly emphasized the power and superiority of air power. This strategy had been utilized through World War II by both Germany and Britain in military campaigns such as the Battle of Britain.
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this paragraph is totes about TOtal warTotal war is defined as a "war in which a belligerent engages in the complete mobilization of fully available resources and population." Historian Gwynne Dyer has stipulated that total war is defined through the military goal of forcing complete surrender on the opponent. Total war has been utizilzed through American history in the Civil War as well as World Wars I and II. Strategic bombing is a direct extension of the philosophy of total war and the complete devastation of the opposition.
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Political unrest
Strategic Bombing is a controversial strategy as a result of the moral implications, the same implications of total war. Basically, the issue of strategic bombing is as controversial and morally head-scratching as abortion. Pro-bombs and Pro-notbombs are two positions argued both against arguable success of the campaigns as well as the morality. Targeting civilians vs winning the war, destroying those unable to fight back due to air power, the cost of victory, killing soldiers because they're holding guns, these thoughts - were never answered, nor will they ever most likely BE answered. It is left to the reader to use their built in moral compass and deductive reasoning to decide what is or isn't moral in such situations. If you want our opinion, click the button below.