[Tzfat]

You must have missed the point, because you are arguing over something I did not say. The Germans were able to bring the world to an unprecedented world wide war. That indicates something intelligent. Hitler's "success" is no recipe for any sane person to emulate because the motivation was evil. Likewise, Sherman's "success" had an ethics-challenged motivation that the Israeli IDF, the most ethical military force in history, does not share.

I can promise you that Sherman is studying at the IDF war college, but not in order to emulate him.

[Ditto]

I would argue that Sherman was far more ethical than any of his contemporaries on either side. The purpose of an army is to kill people and break things. Sherman on his march minimized the killing part and maximized the breaking part.

History shows that Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas brought that war to an end far sooner than it would have otherwise. And he did it with far fewer deaths than others would have.