#precision bombing

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A NY Times visual analysis suggests the U.S. used "precision bombing" (and possibly outdated satellite images) and hit a girls' school in Iran, killing "at least 175 people, many of them children."

How We Analyzed the Strike on the Iranian School | Visual Investigations | The New York Times | Malachy Browne | March 6, 2026

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PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT & GIFS

MALACHY BROWNE — This is the result of the single deadliest known attack in this war so far.

—This aerial image shows around 100 graves being dug after an elementary school was hit in a town called Minab in southern Iran. —You could see excavators there, workmen digging, graves that are marked out to be dug. These were mostly children. [....] —The first videos that emerged after the strike showed these massive plumes of smoke over Minab... described as the school building... and children under the rubble. —Going back over historic satellite imagery, we could see that the building that the school is in was part of the I.R.G.C. compound in 2013. —But by September 2016, it had been cordoned off into its own compound. There was a play area. You could see the bright pastel colors of the school walls, and it very clearly became a school and wasn't part of the I.R.G.C. base.

—What we can see in the satellite imagery and the images from the ground is that more than half the building is gone, a very powerful explosion. A precision strike is required to do that. —It's not secondary damage from a strike nearby. —IA precision strike is where an army will take the coordinates of a target, input that into their targeting system, or visually identify a target and lock onto it. [....] —Our reporting has shown this is characteristic of Israeli and U.S. strikes. So far, the U.S. hasn't confirmed or denied responsibility for the strike on the school. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said...

PETE HEGSETH — We, of course, never target civilian targets, but we're, we're taking a look and investigating that. MALACHY BROWNE — At the same briefing, Dan Caine, who's the U.S. military Joint Chiefs chairman, said that during the first 100 hours of operations over Iran,

—Israel was bombing in the north and the U.S. was bombing in the south, which is where the school in Minab is located. —So, given that the U.S. was operating in that area at the time, the evidence seems to be pointing at U.S. responsibility.

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For more in depth reporting on this see this article:

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

NY Times | Visual Investigations | M. Browne & A. Boxerman | March 5, 2026 updated March 7, 2026

Minab, Iran: May 14, 2024 vs. March 4, 2026

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Raqqa is in ruins like a modern Dresden. This is not 'precision bombing' | Kate Allen | The Guardian

Raqqa is in ruins like a modern Dresden. This is not 'precision bombing'

Thousands of Syrians are dead and their city devastated. How dare the US, UK and French militaries speak of ‘surgical strikes’?, says Kate A

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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, & the Longest Night of the Second World War

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, & the Longest Night of the Second World War This #newRelease tells of the development and deployment of precision bombing during #WWII and how it temporarily became area bombing. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview

World War I unleashed many technological advances into warfare. These mainly brought about more advanced ways to kill more and more humans. After the war, a group of American military thinkers nicknamed the “Bomber Mafia” developed a theory about airplanes and the ability to undertake precision bombing. They thought that wars could be won in a more humane manner by targeting critical industries…

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When the Serbs did not collapse as predicted, but put up a stubborn resistance, the target list in Serbia grew wildly, just like target lists grew in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the First Iraq War, the Second Iraq War, and Afghanistan — and like Obama’s kill list of so-called ‘high-value’ terrorist targets has grown exponentially in the drone war. In war, targeting takes on a life of its own.  In fact, some officers in the NATO targeting cell told me that the conduct of the Kosovo bombing campaign was shaped more by the speed with which targets were rammed through the approval cycle than by any strategy linking a particular target’s destruction to a desired tactical or strategic effect. (Shades of Obama’s kill list meetings in the White House?)

Most importantly, the miscalculations at the beginning of the Kosovo War, which as we have seen, were based in large part on a delusional misreading of the Bosnia precedent, proved that the political marriage between coercive diplomacy and limited precision bombardment is a loser.

However, instead of leading to a divorce, subsequent events in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia have reinforced Kosovo’slesson not learned, and the result is what is now a clear psychopathic marriage of two fatally-flawed ideas.

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