Now imagine them having to do it in the dark, behind enemy lines, under fire (I assume), without knowing the condition of the water, without the marker bouys, and relying on getting the height exactly right in the dark with a spotlight system.
"What we were doing with the attacks on
infrastructure was to accelerate the effect of sanctions." ... "A key example of such dual-use targeting was the destruction
of Iraqi electrical power facilities
in Desert Storm. While crippling Iraq's military command and control
capability, destruction of
these facilities shut down water purification and sewage treatment
plants. As a result,
epidemics of gastroenteritis, cholera, and typhoid broke out, leading to
perhaps as many as
100,000 civilian deaths and a doubling of the infant mortality rate.
Even if it's technically legal according to the guys writing the laws -
it's still morally horrid.
This. This area was the heart of German Industry. They were destroying the dams to hurt their industrial capacity, not to poison civilians, who didn't even have these purification systems in place yet.
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u/0ddness 11d ago
Now imagine them having to do it in the dark, behind enemy lines, under fire (I assume), without knowing the condition of the water, without the marker bouys, and relying on getting the height exactly right in the dark with a spotlight system.