The expression “total war” as used by Goebbels did not mean unrestricted warfare, as post-war propaganda tries to assert,. It merely meant total mobilization, maximum effort and sacrifice. We did the same thing: collection scrap, working long hours in war production, and rationing food. I remember all this, and I was only four years old at the time. We recycled metal cans.
The unrestricted warfare came from the air, and on both sides.
The world came out of WWII with rules of war weakened. Under pressure from the Soviets, guerrillas (“partisans“) were given combat status. This was to retroactively excuse their own actions in the War, but also to allow such tactics against the West in the Cold War years. Now guerrillas (people with no uniforms who pretend to be civilians until they kill you) are legitimized. And we are supposed to fight terrorism under such rules?
If you are going to talk about such things, please remove your head from your ass. When you do, read up on the Law Of Armed Conflict (LOAC), that the US operates under. As with of the rest of your assertions on this thread, they too are BS. As to fighting terrorism, once we can get rid of the dope in the White House who thinks as you do, we'll do fine. Up until your ideological twin was elected the US killed non-uniformed combatants just fine.