Right or wrong this strategy worked with Native Americans, the Japanese and the Nazi’s. Kill ‘em until there’s no one left who has an interest in fighting. It’s the only way to deal with zealots.
There was an elementary reason why armies of old salted the earth... self preservation; because it worked!
Freeper TomasUSMC’s tagline reads: “Fight like WW II, finish like WW II. Fight like Viet Nam, finish like Viet Nam.”
As painful as it is to repeat; he does have a point, and you do too!