Talk:Precision bombing

message: Can I 'cut and paste' for a Public Domain source (The US Air Force Historical Studies Office) to de-stub this page?
The 'Do not Copy' is a bet scary, but when its a PD source, its OK, right?
--Bo 02:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: (First comments)

message: How about a merge to Precision-guided munition, at least until someone puts some research into this? Is there a body of research into smart-bombing as a military strategy, the way there is, say, for strategic bombing? csloat (talk) 05:56, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

message: Too much waffle about "will to fight" and other such nonsense. I was expecting to read an article about precision bombing, not background material for those of a particular political pursuasion.
Very shoddy work for an encyclopedia  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.219.241 (talk) 10:27, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Waffle 

message: The surgical strike article is basically a quick summation of precision bombing with a passing mention of surgical strikes sometimes referring to assassinations. I propose merging that information into this article. Gobonobo T C 08:22, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Surgical strike is also used for certain ground operations and isn't exclusive to airpower, while precision bombing (or bombardment to use an earlier term) really is.Intothatdarkness (talk) 19:54, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge from surgical strike

message: I removed this paragraph because it seemed too biased.
It came right at the end of the "Gulf War" section.
Given the nature of precision weapon warfare, education of decision-makers as to their capabilities and limitations is critically important. (And, beyond this, it is particularly true for air warfare in general, for air power has some unique attributes and advantages, though, in one critically important respect, it is like other forms of military power: it should be used to achieve decisive effects, not as a means of merely sending signals or "feel good" sporadic blows). With the rapidly changing state of such technology, it is incumbent that military and defense organizations offer interested individuals opportunities to become acquainted with the broad capabilities of modern military systems. This is particularly true for precision weaponry, for such weaponry has already demonstrated that, in particular circumstances, cherished notions of how wars are to be fought and the enduring value of such military constructs as the linear battlefield are questionable at best or even archaic.
There may be more paragraphs like this throughout the article; I haven't read the whole thing.
Dr. Hipopotamo (talk) 18:19, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased Paragraph 

message: It's been pointed out to me, that perhaps - although Surgical Strike in itself can be considered a unique term, it isn't necessarily mutually exclusive of Precision Bombing. As a result, it may be better considered to merge the two articles, outlining the use of term, "Surgical Strike" within Precision Bombing. I'll let this be up for discussion at current to see other ideas in regards to the issue - even though I had expanded on this section a tad, I do believe in my own opinion, this to be a more desirable decision. Thoughts in regards to merging Surgical strike into this article here?
Kartovskiy (talk) 21:56, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: No to merge. A "surgical strike" is a move to excise a problem in one go and is not exclusively linked to bombing. A first glance, some distinct culling of the current content is required rather than addition. There seems to be too much of the essay or lecture about it. GraemeLeggett (talk) 19:50, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've given some of the more lecturing sections some "area bombing". GraemeLeggett (talk) 20:26, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Merger with Precision Bombing (From [[Surgical strike]]) 

message: Perhaps it would be worth to discuss how the Norden Bombsight helped? At least in the US, where the doctrine developed, the Bombsight was quite relevant even though later studies have proven that it wasn't as effective, its worth to discuss it since it was believed at the time to be a bit of a holy grail. For my reference to this I believe the Bomber Mafia by Max Gladwell is a book that discusses this (I am aware though that its a controversial book within its field) Chefs-kiss (talk) 02:09, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Discussion Regarding Norden Bombsight