http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/libya/feed.rss Mon, 13 May 24 19:39:52 +0000 Tagged with libya - Personal View Talks en-CA http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1225/a-hundred-years-of-bombing Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:19:11 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 1225@/talks/discussions
One hundred years ago this November, the world was irrevocably and significantly altered. The development of aerial bombardment, initially over Libya by an Italian pilot, would create and routinise a new kind of warfare. The character of violent conflict was transformed along with the legal and moral systems that made it intelligible.

Though fire and rocketry were old weapons, the risks of warcraft were acutely redistributed in the novel discrepancy between bombers and bombed. Terror itself became a weapon. Attackers from above were virtually inaccessible while those they attacked beneath were rendered absolutely vulnerable. Any distinction between combatants and non-combatants, civilians and soldiery was rapidly outmoded. Development of aerial bombardment was more than just a military revolution.

Via: http://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-gilroy-les-back/hundred-years-of-bombing-what-has-it-done-to-us
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