[WhiskeyPapa]

"Total war" is the same thing today as it was in WW2, the War of Northern Aggression, back unto ancient times ... the killing of non-military as well as legitimate military targets.

"Total War" as a concept pretty much includes warring on the civilians only since civilians could actively aid operations, and that by being the "backers-up" of war by working in war factories or whatever. Wars in the past typically have not involved "Regime Change" the way total war does now. When the Goths were sacking Rome, that wasn't total war, and it wasn't total war when Napoloen was attacking Russia. You might call the Punic Wars total war, but even that didn't involve warring on the people the way we've seen it since Sherman's time.

I'm sure you are aware that Hood planned to cross into Kentucky and practice some depredations of his own, but this pie-in-the-sky went wrong when he met a Virginian named Thomas.

Walt

[Godebert]

"I'd vote for Gore again over Bush jr. It was a no-brainer that if Junior was elected, we'd have Senior running things, and I bet he is. Surely no one thinks that Junior has enough brains to get all this rolling. Cheney and Powell are going to run the war -- to clean up the mess they made 12 years ago."---Whiskey Papa

Jim Robinson still letting you hang around, eh?