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It's worth noting there's a very clear and strict divide between tame and domesticated. Laypersons may not always recognize it but it's important to the agricultural industry. Almost anything with a chordate or similar central nervous system can be tamed. Taming just means it's used to humans...

Yeah, the US doesn't need special tricks to destroy a dam. As @PsihoKekec has pointed out, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator is specifically designed for this kind of task and will do fine. This does mean no cruise missiles, stealth bombers would have to be used to deliver them instead, but MoPs...

They did. Coehorn Mortars were used as field artillery in the early 1700s past the US civil war, f'rex. It's just that, again, highly difficult to aim compared with shooting straight with a cannon so mortars were more niche than cannons were.

Mortars existed for quite some time but the high arc shot was harder to aim that more direct-fire cannons so they were a niche weapon up until WW1. In WW1, trench warfare made direct-fire cannons ineffective so mortars were re-introduced to drop explosives down from above and the technology...