Dresden” for “New York City.” The Allies – mostly the United States – firebombed a defenseless German city. day after day. in 1945. a city with no military significance in 1945. At least 25.000 civilians died in the resulting firestorms. with 350.000 left homeless in winter. Our fighting men did this from air in streams of hundreds of bombers. when there were no German fighter aircraft to defend the city.
By 1945. this was an old. old story.
Against civilians in the Shenandoah Valley in October. 1864. after Atlanta had fallen. and the Confederacy was clearly beaten. he made terrorism part of official American military strategy. Sheridan’s cavalry conducted a hit-and-run arson campaign against women and children. It worked so well from the Union Army’s point of phone number list view that Sherman immediately put it into mass production in his march to the sea. That strategy was adopted by European generals as the wave of the future. which it became.
We live in a monstrous era. What the West
Came to regard as unacceptable militarily during the Thirty Years War. 1618-48. in a murderous religious civil war in the German principalities. Western nations have adopted as national policy during wartime. They even adopt it in peacetime.
Military strategists of both the Soviet Union and the United States by the mid-1960’s had adopted MAD: mutual assured destruction. Each side targeted its nuclear weapons against the other’s urban civilian populations. Each side used chase routing number – united states how to guide the other’s civilians as hostages in a strategy that prevailed for at least three decades.
Neither side admitted to its own public
This is what the strategists had self-consciously done. A few men spoke out against this in the late 1970’s and the 1980’s. including a couple of retired American generals. but the generals did not speak out publicly against MAD when they were in uniform. MAD ended – if it has actually ended – only when the Soviet Union collapsed.
This country has been waging a hong kong data terrorist campaign against Iraq’s civilians for over a decade. Estimates range from 750.000 to 1.500.000 civilians dead because of our continuing trade sanctions. half of them children. We refuse to lift these trade sanctions until Saddam Hussein resigns. But he remains in power only because President Bush refused to pursue a military objective – warriors vs.