From a non-gaming ordinary vocabulary paradigm would be a much better word. Are we seeing a paradigm shift?ORIGINAL: Zorch
N.B. - The word 'paradigm' is sometimes used instead of 'meta'.
From a historical angle, did the Germans possess enough intelligence to conduct strategic bombing? And would the Luftwaffe have been able to execute precision bombing of identified factories, even with air superiority?
Certainly industry bombing was part of the original Barbarossa directive. And I have HLYA to thank for first pointing out the less well known history of industry bombing against the Soviet Union. For example there were precision raids on the Gorky Automobile Plant see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_o ... rld_War_II
Having visited Soviet era factories I think it is worth avoiding the confusion with the type of factories we see in the West. In Britain a Lancaster bomber for example was made in over 100 factories in dozens of cities with hundreds of suppliers and their suppliers all in a distributed supply chain. The final assembly plant is not the thing you should be making a comparison with. In the Soviet Union everything from the casting of steel through the ball bearings and glass manufacturer down to the final assembly were made in one vast plant. Hence they had a scale beyond any factory seen commonly in the west. These were not just located in cities, often they were cities. And before the war you could borrow books from a London library describing where these factories were. Some of it the Soviet Union itself publicised before the war - but even after evacuations you could not hide a city. Even if it was not for aerial reconnaissance there was always enough mobility in populations, even in the wartime Soviet Union, for local knowledge to get out. This knowledge was always available to the Axis.
