Other Damage

This is a carry over from the Mig29 post. This refers to damage and casualties in the big Yugoslavia campaign last year

Another thing about civilian casualties. As only one example; a 2000lb. laser guided bomb hits a target. Lets say it’s a good hit. The vibrations from that explosion can make a lot of glass and other debris (sometimes big chunks of cement weighing several hundred pounds fly in nearby houses. Now what about the percentage of LGBs that didn’t find the target? Where do they go? Lots of targets like power stations, factories or other installations have houses nearby. So over a several day bombing campaign you can start adding up the variety of munitions that didn’t hit the target.
My point is it wasn’t all that clean of a bombing campaign. You start adding up all the other destroyed infastructure; dropped bridges, houses with wrecked foundations, water systems, electricity, hospitals, schools, other public buildings, not to mention the people killed, there are all the people injured that we don’t have any good figures on.
My only interest in this, and I think it useful to this forum is that with power comes responsibility. We (speaking about the US) have a lot of power. I don’t see any problem with using it if there is a good reason. To me it was nothing more than a live fire exercise. To me there wasn’t enough reason to put even one of our people at risk. I think it did lots of damage to us. Before that campaign maybe just some of those people didn’t like us. Now most of them hate our guts.
Anyway thats the long answer of whatever figure on civialian casualties come out of that war, I would not be supprised if it got to 4 digits. I have done a lot of reading on this subject. My interest in it is more like a geopolitical strike photo. It is interesting to read first hand reports on some of these strikes from the people that were there.

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