OK, yeah, your post was tough to follow with all that garbage in there. I agree with your sentiment though, air strikes are common for anything which would be difficult or injury/life costing to ground troops. I will say that airstrikes are unbelievably inaccurate and difficult to coordinate. I always thought they could hit anything pinpoint, and maybe in the open desert that's true, but in a city my experience with air was that they were incapable of hitting a desired target. We'd give a 10 digit grid, walk them on with a mapping system, and they would never hit the correct building. Gun line artillery was just as bad in my opinion, but I will say that mortars were like sniper rifles from the sky. In my time the only effective indirect fire I ever saw hit the actual target was mortars, and that was time and time again. We had a great Forward Observer with us who knew his shit, and he was also of the opinion that in a city setting mortars were the way to go.