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Re: Factions (and violence)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:00:57 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Leonard Hoffman writes:
> the war plane itself (be it biplane, divebomber, or stealth fighter) was built
> with the idea of being used to strategically bomb. the first bombing raid was
> done by Italy before ww1 while attacking the Turkish territory of libya. i • dont
> know too much about the sopwith camel specifically, but im sure it either
> bombed enemy troops or fired on them.
Well believe it or not, when the Wright brothers inveted the plane, they had
envisioned it as something that would make war less violent, because they
thought that it would allow generals to spy on each other and stuff, and avoid
needless casualties. What could they know?
In WWI, the plane hadn't really become strategically that useful yet. It was
used for recognisance, but so were observation balloons. There were a few
bombing raids but nothing anywhere close to the scale of the ones in WWII.
German Zeppelins did bomb English cities, but in general, the potiential of air
power had yet to be discovered.
The Sopwith Camel may have carried very small (almost hand grenade sized)
bombs, used for dropping (by hand) on enemy airships, but it was not ordinarily
used to bomb people on the ground.
I am sure that people living in medieval times lived in far greater fear of
siege engines, than people during WWI did, of enemy fighter planes.
I need to go order my Sopwith Camel now!
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| (...) Well, in some ways that's perhaps true. What were the total casualties in Iraq compared to other wars of comparable scope? While Iraq certainly reminded us of what "precision" means with respect to tossing bombs hundreds of miles, we certainly (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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