Talk:Aerial bombing of cities

photo caption
I know this is different, but there is a photo with the following slightly erroneous caption:

"The remains of German town of Wesel after intensive allied area bombing in 1945 (destruction rate 97% of all buildings)"

97% is the level of destruction, but it's not a rate. From the wiki article on "rate":

"A rate is a special kind of ratio, indicating a relationship between two measurements with different units, such as miles to gallons or cents to pounds."

What then, is a small error of writing, grammatical, thecnical, call it what you want, the fact is that during all the bombings that Wesel suffer during the war, about 97% of the city was level. Erick Muller, 14:30 11 June 2007. {{subst:unsigned2|20:31, 11 June 2007|148.245.246.116}

Training for atom bombing of cities
During the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command's 1st Combat Evaluation Group deployed radar bomb scoring units from Barksdale Air Force Base on board military railroad cars to score simulated thermonuclear bombing of cities in the continental United States. When all of the B-52s black boxes accomplished the preset magic the designers intended, there were no targets anyplace on planet earth that could not be obliterated with unerring accuracy....Maier References

--Pawyilee (talk) 17:54, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

WWI city bombing
The article, and the linked article mention Germany bombing Britain and (now) British bombing plan. What of German activities against French towns and vice versa etc.? GraemeLeggett (talk) 07:34, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I have read that the French and Germans bombed towns on the border in the opening days of the war. (165.120.184.15 (talk) 15:20, 17 July 2016 (UTC))

Earliest aerial bombing of cities
This article is inconsistent. It begins by stating "A species of strategic bombing, the aerial bombing of cities began in 1915 during World War I". It then goes on to list cases of aerial city bombardment going back to 1849. Mat Teja (talk) 09:19, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

A more sensible article would be "aerial bombardment of civilians"
The 'cities' limitation is silly; you can't discuss the bombing of towns and villages? Such an article also wouldn't limit itself as "a species of strategic bombing," would not focus exclusively on bombardment during warfare, and would reference 'policing' and terror bombardment of civilian populations during the colonial and neo-colonial eras.Haberstr (talk) 08:04, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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