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I believe Hap Arnold said famously to Curtis LeMay that if the United States lost the War, they would both the arrested as War Criminals. And many other American officers were against targeting cities including Ray Spruance, who won WWII in the Pacific for the United States at the Battle of Midway.

The way Statistical Analysis mad terror bombing to logical and so predictable was probably hard to argue with during WWII.

And come on. Arnold and LeMay were going to do what they had to do for job security.

If Jimmy Carter had one the election in 1980 we might not have any manned bombers today at all, and 400 Submarines.

I think the military policies of the United States in the second half of the 20th Century was a battle between the follower of Curtin LeMay and the followers of Hyman Rickover.