Quote Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
Speaking of recent mil-hist books, what's your take on Dresden?

Bombing the fück out of their cities meant that 30% of the manpower, 50% of the artillery and 70% of the aircraft were withdrawn from the Eastern Front for home defence.

So killing Kraut civilians saved the lives of our ally's soldiers. Of course we should do it.
I'm pretty relaxed about Dresden because it happened in a sincere attempt to end a war we didn't start more quickly, which could only be a good thing. The fault lies with the Nazi regime for continuing a doomed war, not with those who did what they could to bring it to an end. The idea that we should get all upset about the deliberate killing of civilians after six years of total war suggests that critics didn't really understand the concept of total war.

And as for the yanks titting on about 'Precision Bombing' and tut-tutting about Dresden when they were killing hundreds of thousands in Tokyo firestorms, they can fúck off.