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Strategic bombing can only be useful if you bomb strategic target. Like oil refinery, troop marshalling area, road junction, railway station, factory and so on.
The thing about strategic bombing is that you are targeting your enemy ability to rage war, say impeding their movement speed by hitting railway yard, station or road junction. Which most of these targets usually deep inside enemy territories. Which mean you will need a large aircraft with some survivablity deep inside enemy territories to do the job.
Strategic bomber can also perform tactical mission, such as operation arc light which the US uses B-52 to act as close air support for bases and attack in Vietnam until the end of hostilities.
The question is, would Russia be beneficial in a strategic campaign again the Ukrainian?
Ukraine did not have much industrial base left, most of the equipment they are using are either repaired by the West or in the field. and the there aren't really any strategic target left, on the other hand, movement target are quite spread out due to the fact that Ukraine is quite big in size, which mean you will need to penetrate deeper into Ukraine heartland to be able to reach for those target. And that without complete air superiority., it more or less suicide.
Let's put it this way, US enjoy complete air superiority, USAF still loses 30 B-52s over Vietnam...
US brought Imperial Japan to its knees by wiping out Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Tokyo. Japanese leadership witnessed entire cities being erased and decided to give up. American troops arrived in Japan without having the need to fight costly battles and facing Japanese insurgency. This is the impact of strategic bombing.
Even in Vietnam, Operation Linebacker II in 1972 showed that Vietcong could be defeated: Vietcong suffered heavy losses and its mission to retake South Vietnam was delayed by 3 years. Vietcong came to the negotiation table but Nixon administration demanded one thing - withdrawal of American troops without incident. Vietcong was like this is it? Tears of joy....
Of-course, you need political will and boots on the ground to seize on the gains provided by strategic bombing missions to settle a war on acceptable terms like a winner.
But Americans have become too woke to fight like a side that should be feared as witnessed in Afghanistan.
Post in thread 'Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2' https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/russia-ukraine-war-news-and-developments-part-2.746450/post-14379108
Post in thread 'Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2' https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/russia-ukraine-war-news-and-developments-part-2.746450/post-14379145
Post in thread 'Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2' https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/russia-ukraine-war-news-and-developments-part-2.746450/post-14379242
Did the Afghan Failure Lead to the Ukraine War? | by Carl Bildt - Project Syndicate
Carl Bildt revisits the fall of Kabul to consider its implications for America and the world, one year later.
www.project-syndicate.org
Democrats vs. the military: wokeness won't win wars and keep America safe
Our military is declining, thanks in part to Democrats' woke obsessions, which put identity politics above cohesion and smear America as not worth fighting for.
www.foxnews.com
Even in Iraq, US-led forces had to conduct a large number of operations to overcome Iraqi insurgency phases and to reshape political landscape of the country.
The Theory of Limited War is a costly method with subpar outcomes.