01-23-2005, 04:42 PM
kandrathe,Jan 23 2005, 03:48 PM Wrote:What has changed in modern times is lethality. An errant bomb in Vietnam era might miss or kill a half a dozen friendlies or bystanders, but with some of today's weapons a misplaced bomb run might kill hundreds.
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Hmmmm go back a bit further. In WW1 errant bombs killed thousands of soldiers.
The city where I live in now was bombed in WW2 (the allied forces thought it was a german city) etc.
I think the killing of innocent people by accident is getting less and less. The bombs they use now are often not much heavier than they used to be, most of the (smart) bomb is propulsion and electronics.
In that sense the allied troops (with modern armies) are contradicting themselves. First they say that with there modern weaponry there are less and less civilian victims, but we keep hearing about wrong bombings.
For outsiders it is very hard to find out the truth. Take the bombing of the chinese ambassy (kosovo wasn't it). What tells me it wasn't bombed on purpose?