The Grim Reality of Israeli Terrorism

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And perhaps the military strategists need to study this historical information: On air power


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this could be the most misguided article ive seen on this conflict since it started. I'll just comment on the first paragraph since it sets the stage for the rest of it.

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Military historians have a name for the logic behind Israel's military campaign in Lebanon. It's called the "strategic bombing fallacy." Almost since the dawn of the age of military air power, strategists have been tempted by the prospect that the bombing of "strategic" targets such as infrastructure and transportation hubs could inflict such pain on a population that it would turn against its leaders and get them to surrender or compromise.



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This has nothing, zero, nada to do with the Israeli strategy. They have no expectation that the "population will turn against its leaders and get them to surrender or compromise". It is simply to cut off convenient resupply lines, thats it. Its a tactic, not a strategy. And contrary to the statement later in the article, resupplying missiles with the airports and major roads cut off is not a trivial exercise.

total garbage, not suprising from the Washington Post.