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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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