[Locomotive Breath]

There were plenty of military targets in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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There were plenty of military targets in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Plenty of defenseless civilians though. Let's face it, food sources as well as sources of revenue are legitimate military targets in a time of war, and Sherman's strategy obviously worked.

Remember, what Sherman did wasn't random destruction. After Hood gave Atlanta to Sherman, Sherman and his staff studied tax rolls and census information and determined which areas were producing a lot of food, both to feed Sherman's men, and to deny it to the Confederates. They didn't just start marching to the coast, they took specific routes for specific reasons.