Napoleon gave good advice when he said, “If you’re going to take Vienna, take Vienna.”
In other words, if you’re going to war, do it with all your resources and get it done. Waging war half-heartedly with restrictive ‘rules of engagement’ is a recipe for failure.
The US hasn’t waged all out war since WWII, and we haven’t successfully concluded most of them.
The Marshall Plan was for AFTER the war, not during.
What would have happened if we held WW II bomber pilots to the same rules of engagement that we do our modern war fighters? We have men of trial for their lives for killing their enemy, in fact many of our men have trained the people that eventually kill them.