” Japan and Germany circa 1945. You’ve gotta’ make them really really not want anymore war. You’ve got to make them think that the march to war was the absolute worst idea they ever got,”
That was the result of terrifying the civilian population (Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden), essentially a scorched earth policy, like the Romans used in Carthage.
“That was the result of terrifying the civilian population (Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden), essentially a scorched earth policy, like the Romans used in Carthage.”
Which is why it worked so well. But you also MUST way way more than ‘decimate’ the Warrior population. Sherman KNEW there were Men who would never put down their sword (probably because he’d polled HIMSELF in the matter).