Now, with the Kyoto Global Climate Treaty, military commanders in future conflicts will have to keep track of C02 and other green house gas emmissions. In war the ends justify the means, which is all the more reason for military preparedness and defense. Being justified by History is a poor salve for those defeated. Korea has, maybe more then any other country, learned that lesson repeatedly. Incidentally, the movie Dambusters is currently being remade with Mel Gibson in the starring role.
War is hell.
Incidentally, I only know of one Holocaust. It is the one in which several dozen of my relatives were killed. It took place in WWII in death camps with names like Auschwitz and Dachau. The Holocaust is a specific word. I do not see any reason for monopolizing it as there have been massacres elsewhere, but I see a tendency to appropriate the word for such events as the Rape of Nanking, which through horrible did take place as part of a war, and now, in this example.