bombing campaign
Systematic aerial assault
A bombing campaign is a sustained series of aerial attacks against targets in a particular area, typically as part of a military strategy.
The term implies deliberate coordination over days, weeks, or months rather than isolated strikes: The bombing campaign targeted industrial infrastructure.
It can also describe terrorist operations: a bombing campaign against civilian targets.
- airstrikesMilitary attacks from aircraft
- precision strikesTargeted attacks minimizing collateral
- shock and aweSwift dominance through firepower
- blitzSwift, overwhelming offensive
- raidsSudden armed attacks
air raid · targets · explosions · warplanes · sirens · rubble · destruction · strategic · missiles · sorties · casualties · bunkers · craters · incendiary · firebombing · shelter · Dresden · ground zero
- military interventioninvasion, military intervention, coalition forces, allied forces, ground forces
- airstrikesairstrike, air strike, air raid, strafing, strafing run
- KosovoPristina, Kosovar, anthem, memorials, cultural sites
- mass killingmass murder, massacre, slaughter, carnage, bloodshed
- combatbattle, fight, combat, unarmed combat, grappling
- Laos historyFrench Indochina, independence movement, French colonialism, French rule, Geneva Accords
bombing campaignceasefire
Agreed halt to fighting
peace talks · peace treaty · diplomatic negotiations · armistice · truce
bombing campaignair defense
Protection from aerial attack
civil defense · bomb shelter · air raid shelter · Iron Dome · air cover
bombing campaignMarshall Plan
Postwar American economic assistance
nation-building · restoration project · peacekeeping mission · infrastructure development · infrastructure investment
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