Major Fairchild argues that the aqueducts are the most obvious of targets. The old idea was that you would just bomb the whole city, reduce it to rubble with wave upon wave of costly and dangerous bombing attacks. 17 bombs could bring the most important city in the world to its knees. If you could use your intelligence and the best of modern technology to disable a city with a single surgical strike, you would put amazing stress on the will of the enemy," he says.