Comments on: The salaries of airmen in the US and UK depended on understanding that strategic bombing could work, would work, and would be a war winner

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:13:26 +0000

Most of the nuclear arsenal is maintained by the Air Force. Soon the Space Force, the Donal’s only great accomplishment (but what an accomplishment), will begin building orbital stations with SpaceX as the monopoly-capitalist “space rail” of the Space Age. The Space Force will be able to put a unit of mass into orbit for one ten-thousandth the cost of any other power and its stations will bristle with every weapon known to man. Some of the stations will be manned. Some of the manned stations will be manned permanently. We’ll know that things are getting serious when official channels admit that the alleged Apollo Program was a sham from start to finish. As with the Ronahoax, people will turn on a dime and forget that they ever thought otherwise. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

By: Mike-SMO

Mike-SMO — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 04:02:58 +0000

The Ukrainian population was forfeit. The Russian Oligarchs had openly bragged that they would have to kill something like 2 million to “pacify” the Ukraine. The Ukrainians had little to loose. The Ukrainian munitions and equipment were coming for outside the war zone. Logistics might be disrupted but there was no practical way to disrupt that infrastructure. From Syria, the Russians knew of the capability and reliability of US and EU cruise missiles. From Dier ez Zor, the Russians knew that the Americans were sneaky and could blow ~150 aircraft past the S-400 radar systems. The Germans waited too long to develope strategic air and missile capabilities with which to attack Britain. The Russians have some hypersonic weapons to run up the casualty count but they mnow that the slower precision weapons carried by the Navy and USAF work. The Russians have to reserve some capability due to their Chinese “friends”. The Russians and Chinese have faced off before. Both know how little “friendship” is
worth. Russia (and China) sent aid to Korea and Viet Nam. Now it is Russia’s turn in the barrel. Shipping on the Volga and Don Rivers and the Volga-Don Canal are easy targets. Russia has to know that NATO is going to wage a war of logistics. Russia, more than Europe or the USA, is dependent on rail and river
transport. Russia and its oligarchs understand what the end-game will be.

Russia has the resources for a comfortable future. Most of the ruling class is too old to learn Chinese. Then there is the “Third Army” of the Mothers and Wives who will be left with a picture and an urn when this is over. I’d rather deal with tanks and artillery.

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:03:48 +0000

One of the interesting observations about wrong assumptions was the belief that bombing cities and civilians would destroy morale and make those citizens demand their government end the war. That turned out to be wrong. The failure of the London Blitz to change attitudes is only the most famous example.

What has worked is literally bombing a population back to the Stone Age, as the “defensive” NATO alliance did in its unprovoked attack on Serbia. Knock out power, water, and wastewater treatment, and civilian morale really is diminished.

In NATO’s current proxy war in the Ukraine, it seems the Russians were initially reluctant to adopt that NATO practice, since the enemy is the US-sponsored Zelensky regime rather than the poor Ukrainian people. But things change.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:16:43 +0000

Douhet’s main idea was that mass killing of civilians would win the war by cutting off industrial production. The US and UK enthusiastically adopted mass murder as a strategy, and killed hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of German and Japanese civilians. Frenchmen, Italians, and Africans who got in the way also died.

Mass murder of civilians is still the US’ basic strategy.

By: Adar

Adar — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 13:11:55 +0000

Billy Mitchell USA too. You didn’t even have a need for a navy anymore. Especially battleships. Manned bombers could defend the USA shores by sinking any capital ship. For a fraction of the cost of a new battleship you could build an entire fleet of bomber warplanes that could intercept and sink enemy warships far out at sea.

Mitchell also cheated by not following the rules of engagement during that famous exercise when a WW1 antiquated German battle cruiser was sunk. For shame.