Dresden, a survivor's story by Victor Gregg

I have never read a such a tiny book filled with so much real life war drama. the author cites his chief reasons for writing this book,' The only reason for keeping this atrocity in the public eye is to horrify people so much that they never again allow their representatives to order such crimes. there is no excuse for the men who ordered this terrible event to be carried out.'

I would another subtext to the above, 'and once these representatives finish their allocated tenures, they should be tried for any contentious decisions so that their backers can learn lessons for the next time they go about choosing their representatives.'

Why was Dresden attacked when it was abundantly clear that the Germans were losing?  
Why were civilians continued to be targeted indiscriminately by the Allies? If we are to argue that the results of the Great Wars followed by subsequent wars have seen the emergence of so called cleaner wars using 'smarter' bombs than I would counter that maybe the smarter bomb are instead a result of technological advantages made in the defense industry rather than any specific requirement set out by Government leaderships. Most leaderships will still continue to use what ever agents of force within their grasp, as portrayed by the Iran-Iraq ten year old war.

Man is basically an animal trained by the government to fight for its own policy enforcement. Like the author says, 'My mind was conditioned by military life to accept that killing your fellow man was normal.' Food for thought???