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Okay - I am wondering this. Many people call him "The first modern American General". What do you think? I think so. Maybe I'm biased because he's my Great x4 Grandfather.
B. H. Liddell Hart first coined the term, mainly due to his command of logistics. Sherman himself downplayed his role in conducting total war, often saying that he was simply carrying out orders as best he could in order to fulfill his part of Grant's master plan for ending the war.
Like anything else, it's a debate. We're currently very conservative with laws of armed conflict. Would we be done with the middle east by now if we started the war conducting total war on the civilians supplies and property? Who knows...
We're currently very conservative with laws of armed conflict. Would we be done with the middle east by now if we started the war conducting total war on the civilians supplies and property? Who knows...
Hitler knows, if he's conscious still. Foulness doesn't work, as has been demonstrated in the three colonial efforts in the Middle East, and the naster and more inhuman it gets the more totally the foul get beat.
But TG - I'd be proud to be descended from that General. I'm told that he said he'd never have marched through Georgia if he'd known they were going to write that blankety song!
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