[colorado tanker]

Parts of Germany where there were active operations in the Thirty Years War didn't recover from the population devastation until the 18th Century, the worst not until the 19th. It was a brutal, ugly war, the worst of a bad era.

[Citizen Soldier]

later read ping

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve seen it written that the scorched-Earth tactics the Romans used to defeat Hannibal (so that he couldn’t live off the land during his sojourn into southern Italy) were never made whole, and everything looks kinda barren to this day. The footage I’ve seen has been WWII-era Italian campaign stuff.