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Originally posted by promethius9594:
john,
war is indeed not a nice buisiness, but it is still a buisiness and as such demands a certain level of professionalism. flattening an entire city and blasting every home to pieces is not only inhumane, its not soldierly and detrimental to the cause.
HOWEVER, i agree, we take war too lightly in our little corner of the world here. i would have no problem laying seige to a city, cutting off power, water, gas and food access and allowing any who wanted to leave the city for my refuge campe until the insurectionists turned themselves in or were destroyed by their own people. that way, after alls said and done, the people can go back to their lives.
we forget, today, that the civil war was only won when one general had the cajones to cut a swath through the rural south, destroying every resource (military and civilian) in his path, while the other general repeatedly hit towns and armies with unstoppable assualts. i fear if we ever meet an enemy anywhere remotely close to our level of military prowess, that we could lose because we were too afraid and locked up to act as TRUE war (not these little skirmishes) DEMANDS in order to succeed.
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Well I'm open for suggestions, they may not need to take the drastic steps I want, but then you can't always get what you want. I'm interested in results, if they can do it without flating cities great, if they need to flaten a city great. General Sherman has earned himself a special place in "Hale for what he did to Et-lanta"
but he did what he had to do to end the war.