Brian Ross wrote on Jan 17
th, 2015 at 10:47pm:
Pantheon wrote on Jan 15
th, 2015 at 1:35am:
Brian Ross wrote on Jan 15
th, 2015 at 1:14am:
Pantheon wrote on Jan 15
th, 2015 at 1:00am:
Ive heard Carpet Bombing can be quite effective.
Nice term invented by yellow journalists, Ahovking. It is never used by military planners or the writers of military doctrine. Mass bombing has always been a failure when it has been used. All it does is knock down houses and make the survivors rather angry. I was under the impression that the thread was about "curing" people, not making them worse or more of them...
Always been a failure when it has been used? The goal of saturation bombing (Which is the original military term), is too
inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land, In contrast to precision bombing, it is not aimed at a small target such as a bunker, an airfield, or a military unit, instead to do mass damge to cities and importent ifastrature..
Looking at 99.9% of all cities that were saturation bombed, they were all destroyed achieving saturation bombing goal of "inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land"
Looking at Wesel for example were 97% of the city was destroyed before it was finally taken by Allied troops in 1945, it is hugely successful.
Yet, as as demonstrated, Ahovking, saturation bombing has never brought a nation to it's knees and made it sue for peace. Invariably what it does is drives the people closer to their government and support them in their efforts to get revenge. From WWI when the Germans first attempted the concept with Zeppelins and aicraft, through to today it hasn't worked. Didn't work in Grozny,
http://www.siue.edu/~ejoy/Grozny%20March%201995%20(van%20Wessel).jpgDidn't work in Hanoi
https://pathofhistory.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/hanmet_19721226-street-after-b...Didn't work in Pyongyang
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3041/2960710443_fd7727a187_z.jpgIndeed, in Germany, the more the Allies bombed, war production increased. The Allied strategy of "dehousing" the German civilian population destroyed all the non-strategic industries so suddenly more workers were freed for redeployment to war industries, Ahovking.
Seriously... saturation bombing destroy factories, human life and a nations capability to carry on the war, in Nazi Germany saturation bombing did considerable of damage to the population, and limiting Germany production capability.
Thats fact you can look up literally anywhere, saturation bombing isnt meant to win wars alone or single handily cripple a nation, it just doesn't work, yet it had a huge effect of limiting German production capability and causing huge casualty to the general population.
Now in, Hanoi, the gaol wasn't to destroy the city, like it would of been in WW2, however the goal was to attack its Railroads, warehouse complex, the Thai Nguyen power plant, a transhipment point, etc, all which was damage proving the mission of saturation bombing a success. The gaol wasn't to destroy the city.
Its a similar story in Pyongyang, Grozny,
Now you saying that "Indeed, in Germany, the more the Allies bombed, war production increased" is hugely wrong, Would you like to give me the numbers, it would be an amazing feet to see millions of germany build tanks and bulits in cities that were 90-98% flatten..