As you say tnt, can be a huge subject and indeed is. Not knowing the character of your lecturer makes it a bit hard to guess about any expected moral coloration, but probably a safe tack is run heavily with data over opinion? Being you’re in a British college, I would imagine they’re looking for British thinking before and after Harris, the results/problems of day bombing and the initial gross inaccuracy of night bombing, the philosophy of ‘Area Bombing’, the change of consideration for heavy explosives on ‘military’ targets and that loose interpretation (i.e. freedom to randomly select secondary targets – especially USAAF flights) – compared to incendiary drops on civilian targets ‘that would burn well’, and whether or not it helped shorten the war/defeat Germany. Perhaps you can ‘play safe’ by just mentioning it raised moral issues without weighing in with opinion – which might upset the lecturer?

On effectiveness, probably worth a mention is the success of attacks in Normandy and towards Paris, to destroy the German lines of communication?

Good luck.

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