Re: The Crusades
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For part of WWII, this claim was regrettably true (as it was for every other major combatant). For any other time, not so much.
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Japan was the only instance I could think of as well. "integral part" of strategy seems very unfair.
Tuco.
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The firebombings of Dresden and Hamburg seem to have been designed to inflict lots of civillian casualties as well, and IIRC, killed more civillians than the nuclear bombs in Japan.
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