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I remember the attacks on their electric power systems towards the end was also effective. Was the Serbian population ready to spend months or years without el
by tacon 7y ago
I remember the attacks on their electric power systems towards the end was also effective. Was the Serbian population ready to spend months or years without electricity?
- gumby 7y agoTypically attacks against the populace do not cause governments to fall. In retrospect the strategic bombing campaigns against the UK, Germany, and Japan did not cause a change of regime. And this has been borne out in smaller wars (e.g. Serbia, Chechnya) since then. I don’t understand the psychology of it but regardless that appears to be the case.
- AtlasBarfed 7y agoStill compromises economic responses, some aspects of C3, and, uh, did this one result in a popular uprising removing the regime?
- gumby 7y agoBelgrade? Not as far as I know. Strategic bombing didn’t have the effect on German production that annoying would have predicted. Nor did it on Iraq in the first gulf war. I think it had some efficacy against the Japanese shipbuilding capacity but am not certain. Certainly it had no effect on Japanese support for the war effort right up to the day the Emperor gave his famous 1945 radio address.
- AtlasBarfed 7y agoMilosevic was eventually removed from power by a popular uprising, but I guess that was 4 years after the bombings
- gumby 7y agos/annoying/anyone/ thanks autocorrect
- Spooky23 7y agoDid depriving the Serbian population of electricity achieve any policy goal?