Odd Coincidence, II

(Alternate title: Inter arma enim silent leges)

After my previous mention of the firebombing of Dresden, Brad Delong responds to someone else entirely on the same matter.

But because of the terror-bombing of German citizens by British and American warplanes (strategic bombing that did little to harm Nazi war production while leading to things like young women wandering Hamburg carrying the charcoaled remains of their babies in their handbags), by 1944 half the artillery barrels
the Nazis had were in the Reich pointing skyward. If not for the terror-bombing, those artillery barrels would have been--in 1942, 1943, and 1944--in Russia pointing eastwards.

Brad Delong, despite being more of a liberal economist than I usually prefer, is a very smart guy, who has taught me the occasional fact about World War II that I've found useful. Also, he uses far more latin in a blog than can possibly be healthy.