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[Matthew Njaa]

Compared to World War One, World War Two was fought alot differently. Of course there was the new style of fighting with fast surprise attacks and more strategic assaults but also in what both sides did to get their point across. They began targeting civillians to influence the government. The Battle of Britain, Germans bombed populated cities like London. In retalliation the German cities of Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Berlin were bombed and tens of thousands of civillians were killed. Then of course the obvious ones are the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. This caused Japan to drop out of the war and end WWII. In a greusome way this technique was effective because it scares the enemy, especially the average population and it allows the nation to crumble from the inside.I think if a country's people are being killed and the government continues to fight, thus allowing more people to die then the government will have lost all respect and trust and support.

[Mr. Delainey]

On the contrary, when you bomb the snot out of your enemies cities you harden their hearts (with the exception of atom bombs of course).

The bombing of London by Germany galvanized England's population to prosecute the war and resist tyrany. The American occupation of Iraq (2011) has not led to a softening of the average Iraqi's resolve to resist foreign influence either. Whenever your attack or occupy a foreign land expect resistance to remain not dissipate.

The obvious exception to this is when you're dropping atom bombs on cities (killing whole populations) as in the case of Japan; however, despite the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki there were still members of the Japanese military establishment (and the population in general) that wanted to continue fighting...