True. Ironically, it's generally understood by Americans that this was done to break Japan's will to continue fighting. It worked. Everything we do in war is

True. Ironically, it's generally understood by Americans that this was done to break Japan's will to continue fighting. It worked. Everything we do in war is to break the will of the enemy to continue. Thus unless we expect one side to nobly surrender, we ought to expect the most extreme atrocities to occur in war. When you think about it, it's silly to draw an arbitrary distinction of humane combat, since if we really wanted to be humane we'd have our leaders compete in chess boxing or something that would minimize the destruction of property and loss of life.