"Trouble was", if you do that "too much", the enemy's air force is completely put out of service, and the war ends very quickly, as ground forces without air defenses are easily destroyed by ground forces with overwhelming supporting air power.
Oh? Like in Vietnam?
We don't know if he was born by then. You can't use any examples before he was born, that's the rule. WWII examples?- OUT, even though that is the period with the equipment problems.
That’s nonsense just based on how Johnson had so much personal micromanagement of the war.
I’m simply stating what our current doctrine is, massive overwhelming force directed against combatant targets only, gain air and naval supremacy before engaging combatant targets only on the ground.
Non-combatants and civilians have always been very dismayed at the idea of indiscriminate military attacks on them, and it was (and is ?) typically considered to be barbaric by American and European standards.
The massive firebombings of civilians by the Allies in WWII stand in shocking contrast to our principles.