it is wierd how my post, not meant to offend people created a flamewar.
to try to say what I meant was.
I think stratigic bombers are overrated BY MODERN PEOPLE. Specificly, people arguing about the war talking about them as if they won the war singlehandedly.
We live in an age where bombers are more effective in battle than ever and it is natural for people to ekstrapolate and overestimate the importance of that particular weapon.
For me, strategic bombers are only strategic if used against industrial targets, it is only effective if it really reduces the production. Now, they killed alot of people in japan, but people seem to forget that tokyo was not an industrial center, neither where london, or dresden, these where civilian targets.
I realise that bringing up 9/11 was perhaps not well thought out. My idea was to give an example as to how bombing civilian targets serves to agitate the population, giving the regime a great propaganda tool to claim it is “us against them” (Please don’t accuse me of saying 9/11 is a propaganda tool, without any merit. I only try to show an example as to how a civilian population and its government react to many civilian deaths created by a clear enemy). There is a great value in total war in having the civilian population united against the enemy, this value offset alot of the value of bombing civilians.
The perhaps most successful strategic bombing raid in WW2 was the destruction of the rhine dam.