Military Bombing

The purposeful bombing of civilians as a wartime strategy has oftentimes been used to bring about the end of a war, but controversy has sparked up about the ethicality of this practice because of its mass destruction of human lives. This tactic goes against human nature’s aversion to intentionally cause harm without a reasonable basis. Is the bombing of innocent people justified if it ultimately brings an end to the war? This ethical question arises when considering the issue of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

Ray Bradbury once said, “After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.” Keep in mind that quote only described the intensity of “Little Boy”, the nickname for the bomb that devastated Hiroshima. The bombs that dilapidated both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were harrowing, gruesome, and in all sincerity, needless. The reasoning people have given to justify the bombings was because it was a military necessity; they thought the atom bombs were needed to save lives and to end the war quickly. However, the Merriam-Webster dictionary explicitly defines a ‘military necessity’ as “the necessity attending belligerent military operations that is held to justify all measures necessary to bring an enemy to complete submission excluding those (as cruelty, torture, poison, perfidy, wanton destruction) that are forbidden by modern laws and customs of war.” According to this interpretation of a ‘military necessity’, both of the bombings do not match this definition. Various people wonder why the U.S. would condone the use of the explosives and inflict such destruction on others, considering that they had first hand experiences on devastating attacks that seemed gratuitous. Many have argued that there were multiple alternatives to such a catastrophe, and the bombs did not have to be utilized. Others state that the bombings were

This policy changed however when in August 1940 Luftwaffe night-bombers accidentally dropped bombs across London, pushing Churchill to order a retaliatory raid against Berlin. This enraged Hitler and made him order his men to start intense raids on London and around it. These acts of attacking civilian positions by both sides while not specifically in the Geneva Convention at the time, is considered a war crime today with article 51-54 of Protocol I added in 1977 declaring that “directly attacking civilian targets and also using technology such as biological weapons, nuclear weapons and landmines, whose scope of destruction cannot be limited.” is a war crime. Because of these war crimes committed by the allies they did not include the “bombing of London, Warsaw and Rotterdam as a war crime” in the Nuremberg trials against the Nazis. This act of not prosicuting the Nazi’s for their bombings of allied cities in their war crime trials due to the allies committing the same acts on Axis cities shows us how the Allies did infact commit war crimes by directly bombing innocent german civilians in their raids of german

The population of Hiroshima had no idea of the warnings given to the Emperor, while the atomic bomb was not even mentioned in the Memorandum(Stimson, 48). They all knew of the firebombing, but they were completely unaware of the "mass destruction" threats expressed in the letter to their Emperor. Several thought that the bomb was a self scattering cluster of bombs (Hiroshima, 21). Not only were the citizens under informed of the situation, they were killed illegally as well. The law clearly states that targeting civilians is illegal, for it isn't a military target. These civilians were innocent, they did not want war anymore than we did. No one should target innocent people, even with the lives of their own men at

I think killing hundreds and thousands of innocent people is unjustified. Among the hundreds and thousands, there were innocent little children and helpless elderly. Even today there is still disagreement about Truman’s decision to use the bomb.

Firstly, the bombings were unjustified because of the locations where the bombs were dropped. Neither cities were military or naval bases. Hiroshima was

For years’ people have looked for something to for sure symbolizes safety; or look up to and after searching they finally found it on January 15, 1943 and that were the Pentagon. The reason is because the Pentagon was built to be the headquarters of the USA department of defense which makes people feel safe. Therefore, on September 11, 2001 the most mind blowing attack happen that hit the Pentagon that left many Americans in grief. This left many Americans puzzled because this couldn’t have been just an easy plan it had to be well planned out. Therefore, we are going to explore the: history of the building, also the history of the attack plan, deadly strike, rescuers, and how they were able to cope and push through this tragedy.

Historically, there has been three campaigns or regimes recognized as a “Reich” or in English terms, an empire. You have the first Reich which was the Medieval Holy Roman Empire, which lasted up until 1806. Then you have second Reich better known as the German Empire, spanning a time period of 1871 -1918. And lastly, you have the third Reich, or what we commonly call Nazi Germany. Lasting a period of 1933-1945. Also known as World War 2.

Prejudice- the pestilential aspect of human behavior that has lasted for as long as our species existed. In fact, in the wake of the bombings in St. Petersburg, Russia, people were quick to point to their fingers at not only ISIS, but all Muslims as well. According to Andrew Roth in an article posted on NDTV, he wrote how,

Strategic bombing was used to a high intensity during World War Two as a means of demoralising enemy morale and targeting enemy infrastructures and strongholds such as bridges, factories and points of making war materials to essentially destabilise the enemies next point of attack. Post World War II aviation technology experienced a mini boom and allies and axis powers began to understand the easiest, quickest way of winning the war was to devastate important cities to force the enemy into surrender. The strategic bombing campaign which took place mainly during the second World War introduces the arguments as to how it impacted the major misallocation of valuable resources for little gain. The themes of answering this will be explored throughout this essay. It can be argued that the strategic bombing campaign was a major misallocation of valuable resources in the war effort because attempts at precision bombing at specific targets proved to be largely inaccurate.

Bombing a concentration camp filled with unimpeachable, rightly civilian would have been cruel and askew. Scarifying innocent civilians would perceive exactly in the camp and it will kill the process worth the loss of life in the United States bombing. Someone would have to know these camps vigorous,

Thursday November 11th , Beirut Lebanon, 40 innocent citizens lost their lives due to a double suicide bombing similar to the paris attack, they were killed at random, in a crowded urban area while going about their daily business. A day later Paris was attacked with a higher kill score. There was to be believed 8 terrorist responsible for the attack on Paris. 7 of those 8 terrorist were french nationals 1 being a syrian man who posed as a refugee, using a fake passport to get into europe. After the ordeal many countries, and facebook users all over the world, lit monuments up in colors to resemble the french flag and overlays to go over their profile pictures, a service the lebanese did not receive.

Utilizing children and adolescents as a weapon and turning them into suicide bombers is a very effective strategy for terrorist. Children, along with some women, under the Geneva Accords and other international treaties are mainly seen as “privileged noncombatants.” (Sawicki, 2016) “Children are likely to be able to approach a target more easily, evade scrutiny and, in general, catch the target with its guard lowered.” Sawicki also pointed out, you have to kill a suspected suicide bomber before they determinate. Which terrorist can use and spin the story of a child being killed and use it as propaganda to send the message, “the State is killing unarmed women and children.” (Sawicki, 2016).

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The capital of Logar province in eastern Afghanistan, a suicide bombing attacks at least six people were killed, including three policemen. Five policemen were injured in the attack and agencies said suicide truck was packed with explosives. The explosion was so strong that it almost shattered buildings mirrors located 500 meters. The Taliban accepted responsibility for the suicide blast. Tank filled with explosives blew up at a time when it Quick Response Force (police) were stopped at the gate of the compound." This is the first major attack after Mullah Mohammad Omar in Afghanistan confirmed reports of casualties and the deployment of new Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar