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Originally Posted by Oberon
It doesn't mean that you shouldn't try to reduce that price, after all, isn't that exactly what we've striven to do in warfare technology since the Second World War?
What about the people of Dresden, Hamburg, Coventry, London, Berlin, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Guernica, Frampol, and Kassel achieve for their nations war effort? Was the end of the war in Europe hastened by Bomber Commands attacks on civilian targets?
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A certain Star Trek episode comes to mind, and remember, that series was written by WWII veterans who saw the horrors up close.
WWI was a relatively clean war. Static fronts, mainly warfighters dying in the millions, and just 20 years later WWII broke out.
With the above carnage you mentioned, there hasn't been another war on the continent for 70+ years and Germany has a phobia of being seen as too aggressive. Yet elsewhere, the American war machine has made war clean, precise, with minimal collateral damage and fighting flourishes in endless streams of violence.
War SHOULD be horrible. It should affect "those back home" in very real and visceral ways so as to minimize the tendency to wage it.
I think it was Robert E. Lee who said, "It is good that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."