Isn't the Charnwood raid on Caen an example of what is being discussed?
I believe that during this raid some Allied soldiers, including a general, were killed by the heavy bombers
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By contrast, fighter-bombers proved more suited to attacking pin-point targets such as tanks, convoys, and trains, although many fighter-bombers were lost in these operations due to the experience and numbers of flak crews.
Heavily escorted high alitude heavy bomberes were more suited to attacking targets heavily defended by fighters and flak, for example airfields, ports and factories.
Due to the relatively high number of flak posts, airfield attacks were particulary dangerous for fighter-bombers. I read an account by Pierre Clostermann which stated that in less than thirty seconds, his squadron lost eight tempests in an attack on an airfield.
Here's a definition of tactics and strategy:
Tactic (method) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* defines the tactical level as
the level of war at which battles and engagements are planned and executed to accomplish military objectives assigned to tactical units or task forces. Activities at this level focus on the ordered arrangement and maneuver of combat elements in relation to each other and to the enemy to achieve combat objectives.
* Strategy is the overall plan.
An example of the difference:
* The overall goal is to win a war against another country.
* The strategy is to undermine the other nation's ability to wage war by annihilating their military.
* The tactics (told to the combatants) are to do very specific things in a specific place.
Michel de Certeau writes of the differences in The Practice of Everyday Life. Like strategy, tactics operate in space. However, unlike a strategy which creates its own autonomous space, "a tactic is a calculated action determined by the absence of a proper locus. … The space of a tactic is the space of the other" (ibid., 36-37). A tactic is deployed "on and with a terrain imposed on it and organized by the law of a foreign power." One who deploys a tactic "must vigilantly make use of the cracks that particular conjunctions open in the surveillance of the proprietary powers. It poaches in them. It creates surprises in them" (ibid. 37). Tactics, then, are isolated actions or events that take advantage of opportunities offered by the gaps within a given strategic system yet the tactician never holds onto these advantages. Tactics cut across a strategic field, exploiting gaps in it to generate novel and inventive outcomes.
I believe that during this raid some Allied soldiers, including a general, were killed by the heavy bombers
Operation Charnwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By contrast, fighter-bombers proved more suited to attacking pin-point targets such as tanks, convoys, and trains, although many fighter-bombers were lost in these operations due to the experience and numbers of flak crews.
Heavily escorted high alitude heavy bomberes were more suited to attacking targets heavily defended by fighters and flak, for example airfields, ports and factories.
Due to the relatively high number of flak posts, airfield attacks were particulary dangerous for fighter-bombers. I read an account by Pierre Clostermann which stated that in less than thirty seconds, his squadron lost eight tempests in an attack on an airfield.
Here's a definition of tactics and strategy:
Tactic (method) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* defines the tactical level as
the level of war at which battles and engagements are planned and executed to accomplish military objectives assigned to tactical units or task forces. Activities at this level focus on the ordered arrangement and maneuver of combat elements in relation to each other and to the enemy to achieve combat objectives.
* Strategy is the overall plan.
An example of the difference:
* The overall goal is to win a war against another country.
* The strategy is to undermine the other nation's ability to wage war by annihilating their military.
* The tactics (told to the combatants) are to do very specific things in a specific place.
Michel de Certeau writes of the differences in The Practice of Everyday Life. Like strategy, tactics operate in space. However, unlike a strategy which creates its own autonomous space, "a tactic is a calculated action determined by the absence of a proper locus. … The space of a tactic is the space of the other" (ibid., 36-37). A tactic is deployed "on and with a terrain imposed on it and organized by the law of a foreign power." One who deploys a tactic "must vigilantly make use of the cracks that particular conjunctions open in the surveillance of the proprietary powers. It poaches in them. It creates surprises in them" (ibid. 37). Tactics, then, are isolated actions or events that take advantage of opportunities offered by the gaps within a given strategic system yet the tactician never holds onto these advantages. Tactics cut across a strategic field, exploiting gaps in it to generate novel and inventive outcomes.
