tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post2240334170036686647..comments2024-02-29T12:38:32.191-08:00Comments on MUSINGS ON IRAQ: Post Mosul Liberation Day 7 Jul 17 2017Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-54783487555292158952017-07-20T21:57:44.205-07:002017-07-20T21:57:44.205-07:00Anonymous, I agree that there could have been bett...Anonymous, I agree that there could have been better use of air strikes in Mosul. I think the Iraqi shelling was much worse as much of it was indiscriminate. Finally, there was no carpet bombing. U.S. led Coalition used smart bombs. Iraqi forces don't have capability to carpet bomb even if they wanted to. Joel Winghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-28743092375810786892017-07-20T14:04:15.762-07:002017-07-20T14:04:15.762-07:00Joel, on your first response to William Casey; not...Joel, on your first response to William Casey; not to mention the fact that Japan and the US were virtual equals in warfare, give or take. We are fighting an light infantry force which we outnumbered 20-30:1 in Mosul,outgunned, and had air superiority over. Carpet bombing an entire neighborhood to dust to take out 5 snipers on a rooftop when you hold such a vast preponderance of force signals systemic issues with your military in the case of the ISF and reliance on such tactics throughout the fightAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-8684734687552540212017-07-19T11:51:25.386-07:002017-07-19T11:51:25.386-07:00Strategic bombing never worked in Germany and many...Strategic bombing never worked in Germany and many think dropping 2 A-Bombs on Japan proved that it did in Japan. I would argue otherwise. Joel Winghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-84109150955467227872017-07-19T09:36:46.642-07:002017-07-19T09:36:46.642-07:00It's interesting that critics point to the car...It's interesting that critics point to the carpet bombing of Germany and Japan as indifferent to civilian suffering when those very populations supported the targeting of civilians on a far vaster scale with respect to the Holocaust and the Japanese killing frenzy. The Japanese killed two million people with the samurai sword. The Japanese were eating people. That seems worth a mention when you speak of regard for civilian life. And, really, the Allies stopped civilians from being killed by ending the war while Japan and Germany promoted it.<br /><br />Strategic bombing certainly worked in Japan after some 60 cities had been burned up, culminating in the atom bombings. They surrendered before one invading soldier stepped on the beach. Ten weeks of bombing persuaded Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic to surrender in Kosovo. Steverinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04876927630869719536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-69854700009347047402017-07-19T08:36:52.635-07:002017-07-19T08:36:52.635-07:00For the west at least the nature of war has change...For the west at least the nature of war has changed and they are fare more sensitive to civilian casualties than they once were. A lot of the ideas about strategic bombing such as breaking the will of a country were proven wrong in WWII and Vietnam, so military doctrine in the west has changed as a result. For other countries it's different because of their histories. Joel Winghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-80261976040697970442017-07-19T06:56:06.393-07:002017-07-19T06:56:06.393-07:00Interesting that during WWII, little regard for th...Interesting that during WWII, little regard for the civilian population was given to the carpet bombing of major German cities and the fire bombing of Japanese cities. Hundreds of thousands died in fire driven maelstrom.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05812250012481498292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-9002798517780982582017-07-18T14:45:53.538-07:002017-07-18T14:45:53.538-07:00Change title to
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