The war in Europe is highly arguable in both directions. To assert that the bombing campaign did nothing for the war in the Pacific flies in the face of record

The war in Europe is highly arguable in both directions. To assert that the bombing campaign did nothing for the war in the Pacific flies in the face of recorded history. We literally have the imperial Japanese equivalent of meeting minutes where they talk about this stuff and toward the end the sheer destruction of the bombing campaign did affect the credibility of the militarists "yeah we can still pull this off" claims in the eyes of many of the others.