Former head of RAF bomber command, Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris, has gone public and criticized the Russians for their use of precision bombing on infrastructure targets in Ukraine.

Instead of trying to minimize civilian casualties, Bomber Harris recommends the Russians target civilian areas with so-called 'area bombing' in order to incinerate and kill hundreds of thousands of civilians to break the moral of the local populace and help to force regime change.

Sir Arthur had this to say to the Russians:

I want to point out ... we never actually considered any particular industrial sites as targets. The destruction of industrial sites always was some sort of bonus for us. Our real targets always were the inner cities.

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.

As Councillor Duxbury wisely said in the movie Billy Liar (1963): Think on't.