WWII was won relatively quickly, using strategies that are now considered inhumain and inhuman by UN decree. What broke Germany's back was the people who were being strafed and carpet-bombed into a new Stone-Age. they stood up and said enough is enough. The soldiers were losing family and property back home every day, and surrender was simply a matter of time.
We can't do that today, even though we know exactly where our worst enemies are. To fly in a mission into ISIS and simply pound them into oblivion is a war-crime, so we gotta do it with boots-on-the-ground and facing them in hand-to-hand combat.
Hell, we can't even deploy anti-personnel mines without getting a lot of senseless flak about harming the enemy.
Once upon a time, war was much more civilized.
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