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Re:The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Co... by SubiculumCode on Monday December 10, 2018 @05:14PM (#18651586)
restraint. More brutal societies would carpet bomb an entire city that allowed enemies shelter within its streets. We do not do such. We fought with our hands tied by ethics, thank goodness.
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Re:The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Co... by flatfilefan on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:54PM (#18652207)
Yes you do https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/15/world/middlee...
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Re:The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Co... by SubiculumCode on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:10PM (#18652280)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mosul_(2016%E2%80%93...

That was an Iraqi and Kurdish forces offensive against ISIS in Mosul, which they heavily occupied. We did assist that offensive with missile strikes. The satellite photos your article shows are located in a specific region of the city. Did they bomb the rest of the city? War is terrible, but I am not sure your example is a good one.

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Re:The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Co... by newnewpdro on Monday December 10, 2018 @05:35PM (#18651716)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_bombing_of_cities#Since...

This style of bombing continues to this day. There are numerous citites in the middle east that have been reduced to rubble in the 21st century by aerial area bombing.

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Re:The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Co... by SubiculumCode on Monday December 10, 2018 @05:43PM (#18651765)
The U.S. has not for many decades, as far as I know.. We have sent missiles at installations, but not leveling entire cities.
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Re:The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Co... by newnewpdro on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:36PM (#18652411)
The latest on-the-ground footage I saw of Kabul, Afghanistan suggests we're still leveling entire cities. There wasn't a single building intact except for the one being reported on that had just been constructed, which stood out among the vast fields of rubble.
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Re:The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Co... by SubiculumCode on Monday December 10, 2018 @08:17PM (#18652595)
How recent? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MJc9xCzabA seems relatively intact to me.
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Re:The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Co... by newnewpdro on Monday December 10, 2018 @11:05PM (#18653263)
My bad, it was Mosul, Iraq: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Fa_dd5yIA&t=4m15s
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