The so called general public' think we are sending a thousand Lancaster's out each night. I use the analogy, in 1944 we needed 800 bombers to shatter a city to destroy a factory, now we need one bomber to destroy the factory and leave the city unharmed.
The world moves on, just people have no idea, which is a result of the armed forces shrinking and moving away from their communities and politicians painting them as unthinking robots, fortunately we know different.