Not sure if this is offtopic, but I have first hand experience of bombing. As you all I know, I'm from Croatia. And Croatia was in war with Yugoslav forces and Serb separatists from 1991 to 1995. Since Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia left Yugoslavia in 1991, the vast majority of the soldiers and nearly all of the officers in the Yugoslav army were Serbs. From 1991 to roughly 1994, the Yugoslav military had complete superiority over Croatian forces.
My hometown is located near the Bosnian border, and we experienced bombings day and night from Serb positions over the border (today Republika Srpska is located there). Occasionally there would be air bombings, but most of the bombings were carried out by howitzers and multi-rocket launchers. When the siren went of off, my family would rush to the basement. Sometimes you could hear the howitzers firing, and you count seconds until the bombs fall on the ground. I was a kid back then, but I knew something terrible was happening outside, and I never even asked my parents to look outside, even though I was very curious as a child. The buildings that sustained the greatest damage were the church and the hospital, so I think the purpose of those bombings were to break our morale, since eastern Croatia was effectively a large cauldron, cut off from the rest of the country.
We were surrounded by Republika Srpska (Serb-occupied part of Bosnia) in the south, Republika Srpska Krajina (Serb-occupied part of Croatia) in the west, and the Republic of Serbia to the east. The only friendly area was to the north, Republic of Hungary, one of Croatia's closest allies. Fortunately, in 1994, with all the new weapons illegaly acquisitioned Croatia started to gain superiority over Yugoslav forces, so in 1994 Croatian forces destroyed the Serb pincer that separated eastern Croatia from central Croatia. The war ended in 1995 with wiping of all Serb forces from Croatian territory and the disbanding of Republika Srpska Krajina. Arguably, that's also the time when Croatian forces comitted atrocities over the Serb population.
This is still a matter dispute between Serbia and Croatia, as well as Serb atrocities in Vukovar and Dubrovnik.
I sincerely do hope that, if not avoided alltogether, that bombing will become very precise in the future. It's a terrible thing to see half the houses in your street destroyed, believe me.