True. Ironically, it&#x27;s generally understood by Americans that this was done to break Japan&#x27;s will to continue fighting.  It worked.  Everything we do in war is to break the will of the enemy to continue.<p>Thus unless we expect one side to nobly surrender, we ought to expect the most extreme atrocities to occur in war.<p>When you think about it, it&#x27;s silly to draw an arbitrary distinction of humane combat, since if we really wanted to be humane we&#x27;d have our leaders compete in chess boxing or something that would minimize the destruction of property and loss of life.