7th March 2004, 11:13 PM
That was a response to Weltall of course.
And what do you mean? How wouid a ground invasion lead to fewer than 200,000 civilian deaths? Oh okay add tens of thousands if you want to include all the radiation poisioning deaths later on, but it was under 200,000 immediate deaths... a ground invasion could get VERY messy if Japanese leaders wanting peace hadn't quickly gotten power. And many, many civilians would die because they would attack the American troops... as I said, no matter if they could win or not...
For a model, see Okinawa and expand it to a huge scale. That was a very real possibility had we invaded.
Standard operating strategy on all sides in WWII.
And what do you mean? How wouid a ground invasion lead to fewer than 200,000 civilian deaths? Oh okay add tens of thousands if you want to include all the radiation poisioning deaths later on, but it was under 200,000 immediate deaths... a ground invasion could get VERY messy if Japanese leaders wanting peace hadn't quickly gotten power. And many, many civilians would die because they would attack the American troops... as I said, no matter if they could win or not...
For a model, see Okinawa and expand it to a huge scale. That was a very real possibility had we invaded.
Quote:I'd hate to have you ever lead a combat or battle. "Instead of killing off their army, why don't we just bomb their cities and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people?" "Makes sense to me!"
Standard operating strategy on all sides in WWII.