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> your goal is to terrify enemy civilians, which is not a legitimate military strategy This seems like a perfectly legitimate military strategy? It’s a strateg
by Aeolun 2y ago
> your goal is to terrify enemy civilians, which is not a legitimate military strategy
This seems like a perfectly legitimate military strategy? It’s a strategy which the allies used to great effect in Germany and Japan :/
The Germans used rockets instead of bombers because they couldn’t, not because they didn’t want to.
- arrowsmith 2y agoI think by "legitimate" they meant morally legitimate. Humanitarian, honourable, chivalrous, whatever you want to call it. Intentionally targeting noncombatants isn't any of those things, even if it's effective at demoralising the enemy. Of course we bombed the hell out of German noncombatants too, so we don't exactly have an unsullied record.
- zardo 2y agoOr not a violation of the Geneva convention that was a response to exactly those practices. > even if it's effective at demoralising the enemy. It wasn't.