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KLAMarine said:
Player2 said:

Sadly USA stopped caring about minimizing war casualties after WW II so they didn't use this wonderful strategy in the next wars they were involved

I'm sorry but what? Are you referring to bombing because bombing cities is probably one of the more indiscriminate forms of warfare there is. This tactic makes no distinction between soldier and civilian, a bomb just falls and explodes.

Don't look at me, the others are the ones supporting the idea that nuclear bombing reduced war casualties in WW II and that USA did it for that reason. If we assume that as true then two questions arise:

Why USA didn't apply the same strategy in other conflicts?

What happened to the country that cared so much about civilian deaths? It didn't take long for USA to support military coup d'etats that overthrown democratic governments (with obvious consequences to civilians opposed to them), do napalm bombing, agent orange or support terrorists like the contras.