{"id":219627,"date":"2026-04-14T09:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219627"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:48:58","slug":"air-force-general-testifies-that-bombing-civilians-always-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219627","title":{"rendered":"Air Force General Testifies That Bombing Civilians Always Backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highest-ranking U.S. commander in Europe told Congress what has been obvious for decades\u2014that bombing civilians is an evil and inhumane tactic that only leads to more long-term problems.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWhat I\u2019ve observed over the course of studying air power in history is that anytime you attack a civilian population&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/207705\/air-force-general-testifies-bombing-civilians-backfires\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highest-ranking U.S. commander in Europe told Congress what has been obvious for decades\u2014that bombing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219627-air-force-general-testifies-that-bombing-civilians-always-backfires.jpeg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219627-air-force-general-testifies-that-bombing-civilians-always-backfires-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219627-air-force-general-testifies-that-bombing-civilians-always-backfires-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219627-air-force-general-testifies-that-bombing-civilians-always-backfires-768x512.jpeg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219627-air-force-general-testifies-that-bombing-civilians-always-backfires-1024x683.jpeg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219627-air-force-general-testifies-that-bombing-civilians-always-backfires.jpeg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219627-air-force-general-testifies-that-bombing-civilians-always-backfires.jpeg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219627-air-force-general-testifies-that-bombing-civilians-always-backfires-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219627-air-force-general-testifies-that-bombing-civilians-always-backfires-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219627-air-force-general-testifies-that-bombing-civilians-always-backfires-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}