Comments by "Gort" (@gort8203) on "Operation Starvation; The Strategic Bombing Campaign No One Remembers" video.

 @craigmcculloch4342 I agree that book is a must read. It helps debunk the idea that strategic bombing was ineffective.
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@flarvin8945 I don't see how resources being an obvious limitation on war production makes bombing of that production inefficient. One would have to believe that it is more efficient to destroy a weapon after it is in the hands of the enemy soldier trying to kill you with it.
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@flarvin8945 " but the allies could have put more effort into attacking transportation over production. Trains yards and bridge are just a couple targets, which would have also helped limit the holocaust." Huh? Trains were all over the place, a distributed target set. But they did attack marshaling yards. But you want to attack things like ball bearings after they have left on multiple trains, rather than destroy the two factories that produce them. Petroleum products were all over the place on rail cars, tanker trucks, and pipelines, but you want to attack their distributed means of transport rather than the vulnerable refineries. Your strategy is less efficient, not more efficient. You can interdict an isolated battlefield, but you can’t interdict an entire country. The U.S tried to in Vietnam with a lot more bombs than were dropped on Germany and was unable to do it. When they switched to bombing the sources of supply in North Vietnam during Linebacker II it was effective.
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@flarvin8945 You don't see the difference between isolating the battlefield for Overlord and trying to destroy all means of moving all material to all fronts? You obviously think interdiction is more effective than destruction of productive capacity, and I say experience demonstrates that you have no appreciation for reality. It seems your true motivation is to reduce the civilian causalities associated with strategic bombing rather than to actually end the war sooner. That means lose more allied troops so that more enemy civilians can avoid the effects of the war, and I vote no, as did the allied command in WWII.
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What a moron.
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