Re: Bomber Harris, Dresden, Iraq & Palestine Archived Message
Posted by Keith-264![](https://images.boardhost.com/invisible.gif) on November 26, 2023, 12:01 am, in reply to "Re: Bomber Harris, Dresden, Iraq & Palestine"
The RAS used forms of words which varied from naked terrorism (Trenchard) to various mealy-mouthed sophistries. Despite air power always being an indiscriminate weapon, because of its inherent inaccuracy the RAF emphasised accuracy because of the obvious concomitant of bombing factories in the Ruhr which had workers' neighbourhoods next door. Not because of humane instincts about foreign plebs but because of the fear of retaliation. In practice dropping sticks of smaller bombs instead of one big one made it abundantly clear that bombing from the air was imprecise.
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Message Thread:
- Bomber Harris, Dresden, Iraq & Palestine - Ian M November 25, 2023, 3:38 pm
- John Newsinger on the British repression of the 1st Palestinian intifada - Ian M November 25, 2023, 3:43 pm
- Re: Bomber Harris, Dresden, Iraq & Palestine - Ian M November 25, 2023, 6:20 pm
- Re: Bomber Harris, Dresden, Iraq & Palestine - Keith-264 November 25, 2023, 10:53 pm
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