mind game.
War has always been first and formost a head game.

If you can convince the opposition you are superior and can strike at will even if this is untrue you have the advantage.

I strongly agree with one particular point made in the article. Precision Impacting ordinance. One of the biggest morale breakers in the Gulf action was a single bomb coming from nowhere, hitting a specific target, without warning.
That single explosion had a devestating effect. Clean radar sweeps, infrared scans blank, silence from the sky.
Then boom!
It really did a number on them, and was far more effective than a carpet bombing run.

The effects of continuous bombing have been known for a very long time. In WW-I "Shell Shock" removed as many front line troops as physical injury.
WW-II saw less of it, due to the mobile nature of that conflict. Troops were not pinned into long trenches for months at a time with continous shelling.
But the effects from Allied and Axis bombing had the same effect on those populations that suffered them.

Air power works, and I think will play even a larger role in the future. The acccuracy of precision weapons will continue to improve. It is more effective to use a single piece of ordinanace to strike a very specific target than the carpet bomb a whole area to strike the same target.
And a damned sight cheaper, in dead civilians, and costs.

Richard