The Crusades

[Tuco]

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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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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.

[Myrtle]

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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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FWIW,the firebombing of Tokyo prior to Hiroshima & Nagasaki killed a minimum of 120,000 Japanese civilians.

Attacking civilian populations was a poitical decision carried out by the military of most of the major combatants of WWII.....Germany, Japan, Russia, England and the USA.

[Buccaneer]

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Japan was the only instance I could think of as well. "integral part" of strategy seems very unfair.

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Well actually Germany as well. Special bombs and bombing runs that were designed to kill workers and burn thier homes.

I believe there were other instances not in WWII. We did not have the ability to attack whole populations prior to WWII easily with bombs, and fire, but we did kill most of the indignious populations with biological weapons in the form of blankets deliberatly infected with small pox. Indians have very little immunity to the european diseases, STDs included, and so we exploited this weakness. Not that I gnash my teeth over it, but we need to remember it. We didn't do it because it was very difficult to do. When it is easy we seem to have a propensity to do it.