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Quote by: Mr.Vicchio Falluja could easily have been won withhout a single US Casualty. A flight of 12 B-52's in 4 ship formation, carrying 110 500lbs iron bombs... do three runs and.. 660,000lbs of high explosives spread evenly across the city... no more insurgents.
But the political cost of doing that was far too high. Thus we had to go door to door and fight on the ground. Every stray bomb, every malfunctioning cruise missle is a head line "US MILITARY KILLS CIVILIANS!" Now imagine if we had carpet bombed that city into rubble? |
I didn't know that carpet bombing cities were still a viable solution, unless in extreme cases ofc but the place still had civilians in.
Anyway, can we get back on topic please?