I wondered if it was a new thing for #schools and other clearly #civillian places to be targeted during #wartime - it is not.
In this case it was the Nazis doing this.
I haven't been yet able to discover if the Allies did the same (I fear my teenager-level German and the kind of searches I would have to make to research this might trigger some alarm bells somewhere!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Sandhurst_Road_School
@vfrmedia the biggest difference seems to be that if it's "we" killing children, those are unfortunate collateral victims and we are very sorry, if it's "them" it's because they are barbarians terrorizing innocent civilians.
I can not recall any instance of at least a slap on the wrist, much less so serious, clear and outspoken condemnation by legal and political instances of military targetting civilians.
I fear it's just one aspect of truth being the first victim of war.
@vfrmedia Dresden and Tokyo firebombing too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1945)
So I read a few years ago that the documentation around the firebombing of Dresden was now considered suspect because the main researcher turned out to be a secret Nazi.
However, more recently, during the more than decade long intermediate period of the Iraq war, the US did strike several schools. They switched bomb types to cause fewer casualties because this was so frequent. The Kosovo campaign also hit hospitals.
The notion of precision bombing is propaganda. Its highly unlikely that the US would intentionally strike a school.
The weird religious stuff going on, to me, does create some doubt. A school is not a useful target for military objectives, but as soon as Jesus's return starts being part of military policy, irrationality has entered every facet of decision making.
During the 1980s, I spent a week being shown round various Telephone Exchanges as part of work experience with British Telecom.
One thing that sticks in my mind is their architecture was very similar to school buildings of the same era - there must have been standard design frameworks for these kind of functional public buildings which needed a lot of floor space.
It would be easy from the air to get these mixed up (in modern days both often have mobile phone masts on the top due to height) and comms infrastructure is always a target in wartime (whether or not "rules of war" permit targeting supposedly civillian infrastructure)
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