From: hubert mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 09:17:03 MST
> "Christian Weisgerber" <naddy@mips.inka.de>
>
> >there is no modern precedent for a large city being taken successfully
> >where the defenders decided to hang on and actually fight to the end.
John Clark:
> Berlin.
But before Berlin was finally taken it had been bombed back into stone age
for four years. The article Christian is talking about refers to the fact
that Baghdad will not be bombed to the ground like German cities were in
WW2. In 1945 it was easier to take Berlin because the city was virtually
dead already and it's inhabitants demoralised for years. This scenario is
not applicable to Baghdad. The US/UK troops will not completely cremate the
city with air raids before they walk in. But if they don't do it, the report
says, they will probably have no chance to take a city of five million
people.
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