"To Sherman," writes Hanson, "it was wrong to fight at Shiloh, in which his Midwesterners--themselves no abolitionists--were blasted apart while shooting down poor Southern boys who owned neither slaves nor much property.
Far more humane, he grasped, was to burn the estates of the rich and the buildings of the rebel statesmen who had voted for secession; free the slaves who were critical to the Southern economy and whose enslavement had prompted the rebellion; and demonstrate that no Confederate soldier could charge the Union line with the certainty that his government and homeland far to the rear were safe from fire and ruin."
Hanson is [imo] getting close to formulating a new western philosophy of war, -- in which 'we' stop trying to win their "hearts & minds", -- and go to the root of the evil.. --
-- The fanatical leaders whose statist/fascist ideas infect their followers to make war on our human freedoms.
Hansons is a very radical idea, one that once it is truly understood by our own would be 'leaders', will be much resisted. - Bet on it.