“I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.Footnote: This is a paraphrase of a comment by Otto Bismarck in a speech to the Reichstag in December 1876 It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance.”