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		briffle on Jan 31, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stealing the Enemy's Urban Advantage: The Battle o... I would argue that being able to destroy a single building with an air strike is a HUGE reduction in 'killing lots of people' compared to wars past, where large bombers dropped thousands of bombs over entire areas of a city hoping to weaken/destroy infrastructure the enemy was using.

baud147258 on Feb 1, 2019 [–]

> dropped thousands of bombs over entire areas of a city hoping to weaken/destroy infrastructure

I'm pretty sure that in a lot of cases, hitting urban area was the goal, with theories that killing civilians will help win the war.

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