In WW2 the USA shelled and bombed cities - areas in France and Italy i.e.: Caen, Monty Casino, etc. that killed 10,000 of civilians in order to take German strongholds. I believe 60K French were killed in Caen alone. What I’m saying is that the US army in Europe never intentional targeted civilians. However they had no qualms about shelling – bombing civilians if it was needed to obtain victory over a well-entrenched, well-armed, resistant enemy. And the German were often masters at defense.The US Army in WW2 did everything possible to win against an enemy that at least early on they could have lost the war to. Since WW2 the US Army has not fought with this type of determination in any other conflict. Nor has it created this much incidental damage. You could say they dropped more tonnage in Viet Nam but not on top of or at people, or destroyed much of Iraq infrastructure but without the numbers in civilian deaths. Yes the technology is better but if a group of insurgents were in hiding in a known building in Iraq we tried not to take out the whole building to get the insurgents whereas in WW2 the whole building would have been shelled or bombed.
My question is with today’s politics and media do you think this type of warfare is even possible?
My question is with today’s politics and media do you think this type of warfare is even possible?