Area bombing is not done in daylight, because if you aren’t bombing at anything specific, why do you need to see anything? And it was explicitly aimed at civilians. It said: You should hit residential neighborhoods, and keep coming night after night, in wave after wave, until your enemy’s cities are reduced to rubble. Then the will of the enemy is going to sink so low that it will just give up. When the British wanted a better euphemism for what they were doing, they called it “morale bombing”—bombing with the intent to destroy the homes and cities of your enemy and reduce your enemy’s
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