CSPAN3 Lectures In History July 29, 2016
Total war is genghis kahn, tamerlane, what the russians and the japanese did in world wars i and ii. You go in and you have mass rapes and murders of civilians, intentional, deliberate destruction of civilian population. Total to me meaned unfettered you use every weapon at your disposal and obliterate the enknee ene enemy. What the north did to win was to exercise hard war. That term is used a lot too and i think its much more accurate to describe what happened. The north went in and did a lot of damage. They burned barns, burned craps, killed animals e. They basically imposed severe economic...