Iwant to know the true story was most of it about briges
2006-09-09 18:52:07 · 5 answers · asked by me 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
and how hard do you think it was
2006-09-09 19:32:29 · update #1
This is a strategy with very old roots. The best militaries in the history of the world have done it. It isn't new and it is important to isolate an area to secure it. If you take out bridges it is harder for enemy too get equipment and men into an area.
2006-09-09 18:59:33 · answer #1 · answered by spider 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why did the US destroy so many bridges during the wars? Which wars? In any particular war, bridges are destroyed to stop the flow of men and equipment over rivers, either during an offensive or to stop them from retreating and to trap them. Once the surrounding land is captured the US could rebuild the bridge and cross as they pleased. It's all about denying things to the enemy.
Basically that is it.
2006-09-10 02:04:56 · answer #2 · answered by Michael 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
uuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh i think the idea was to keep the ancestors of bad spellers from coming over here. actually the us tried to sauve all the briges in the wars becus the us mostly is on the offensive so they knead the briges to get at the emeny who is retreeting. american generals just have a thing about briges, thats all.
2006-09-10 02:47:46 · answer #3 · answered by Dallas 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
couple of reasons why we did and still do...
first is to prevent the enemy forces from using the bridge. if we can destroy bridges by aircraft or what have you, we restrict the movement of enemy forces as well as make their supply and logistics slow down, hurting the forces in the area...
another reasons is that many bridges sustain combat damage, or are just plain unsafe to begin with. specially in third world countries, such as iraq or afghanistan, so if the engineers find a bridge they will determine if its stronf enough to use and if not, will blow it up to prevent injuries from happening, both to military and the local civilian population, then when the area is safe from battle, usually the engineers will rebuild the bridge....
2006-09-10 02:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by gooslegeek 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The general idea of destroying bridges is to cut supply lines. Without supplies the enemy cannot hold out long.
2006-09-10 02:27:37 · answer #5 · answered by Silvatungfox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋