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Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Quotes: Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.
         

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.


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