Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Deliberate or Accident? The German Blitz of Rotterdam 1940" video.

Or three, you are at the start of an industrial war, and the civilians are an integral part of the war economy, producing weapons and materials for the use of the military. Why is the civilian who makes the shell regarded by some as less of a foe than the soldier who fires it?
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You call them the inevitable consequences of waging an industrial war. Put simply, if the civilians who manufacture the weapons are prevented from so doing, then the military will soon have no means of continuing the fight.
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@slobodankopanja2506 Indeed they can. But I am discussing reality, not morality. As Admiral Sir John Fisher wrote 'Moderation in war is imbecility.'
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