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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
It's really not even close. Not by any standard -- number of military deaths was much higher, despite the incredible brutality of WWI. Number of civilian deaths was vastly higher. And destruction was infinitely higher, particularly of wealth and industrial base (the things that hurt the people in power).
What was WWI's "Dresden"? And Dresden was just one of many cities flattened by the airwar.
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Dresden represented a qualitative difference. That particular campaign was aimed largely at the civilian and refugee populations with the identified aim of driving a wedge between the people and the government. That wedge should be familiar; the Brits taught it to the Jews in Palestine. The Arabs learned it from the Jews. It is now one of the primary aims of most military and paramilitary actions.
