Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by Aeolun on Friday June 07, 2024 @06:36AM (#40607235)

> your goal is to terrify enemy civilians, which is not a legitimate military strategy

This seems like a perfectly legitimate military strategy? It’s a strategy which the allies used to great effect in Germany and Japan :/

The Germans used rockets instead of bombers because they couldn’t, not because they didn’t want to.

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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by arrowsmith on Friday June 07, 2024 @11:42AM (#40609727)

I think by "legitimate" they meant morally legitimate. Humanitarian, honourable, chivalrous, whatever you want to call it. Intentionally targeting noncombatants isn't any of those things, even if it's effective at demoralising the enemy.

Of course we bombed the hell out of German noncombatants too, so we don't exactly have an unsullied record.

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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by zardo on Friday June 07, 2024 @03:41PM (#40612170)

Or not a violation of the Geneva convention that was a response to exactly those practices.

> even if it's effective at demoralising the enemy.

It wasn't.

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