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.
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Carl Bildt revisits the fall of Kabul to consider its implications for America and the world, one year later.
www.project-syndicate.org
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.