According to historian Donald Miller, "the economic disruption would have been far greater had Bomber Command targeted the suburban areas where most of Dresden's manufacturing might was concentrated".
Podľa Donalda Millera by ekonomické škody mohli byť oveľa väčšie, ak by sa bombardéry zamerali na periférie, kde bola sústredená väčšina drážďanského priemyslu.