Lifeofthemind
“On balance the purpose of the multi-Billion dollar air campaigns, culminating in the atomic bombs, were to induce the civilian population to stop supporting their armed forces and to induce the enemy armed forces to abandon the battle.”
I don’t agree at all, LOTM. First priority was to disrupt or bust their industrial capacity to destroy their ability to wage aggressive war.
We were never going to get the Japs or Germans to quit supporting their armed forces though we were attempting also to destroy their morale.