If the Gaza campaign was fought in WW2

[X14Freak]

Originally Posted by msgsing

World War 2 was fought based on a strategy of total war. Civilians were seen as targets on the same level as soldiers. Read more about the fire bombing and atomic bomb attacks on Japanese cities or the bombing campaign against Dresden and other German cities.

The US fought it's last total war between 1941 and 1945. We have not won any major conflicts since then with our limited war strategy.

Well the USA dropped more bombs on North Korea than were dropped in all of the Pacific Theater. 2 million people out of a population of 9 million in North Korea perished (2 million people in Japan died in WWII out of a population of 70 million). Almost all cities in North Korea were destroyed and the devastation was far beyond what Japan suffered in WWII. The devastation was so widespread that the US didn't even have targets in North Korea. I don't know about you but I don't think total war tactics helped the US win the Korean War. The devastation did help North Korea completely restructure its society however to become even more oppressive and more Orwellian so the US can feel good about that.

[HappyRider]

You are not proving that total war did not work in Korea. What you are proving is that air power alone does not win wars. We might have leveled NK but there was no one to go in and claim the land. That's why the war ended the way it did. This is not what happened in Germany and to a lesser extent Japan. As for Gaza, I consider a massive intelligence and military failure on the part of Israelis to let Hamas build such a large network of tunnels. Digging two-mile tunnels 60' underground has to leave markers all over the place. This is getting to be comical. Looks like after building the wall, the Israelis now have to dig a ditch too to stop tunneling. A moat with alligators may not a bad idea.