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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
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Subject: Re: Civil War technology
Keywords: Ironclads, Civil War
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Date: 15 Oct 90 03:43:51 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
*>Gwynn Dwyer's TV series about war (I think it was just called "War") 
*>credits Napoleon with inventing "Total War".  Who's right?  (Actually, I'm 
*>not even sure about the time scale.  Which came first?)

>From what I recall of the program, Napoleon 
was the first to introduce conscription. Be-
fore that, warfare (at least in europe) was 
conducted by small, professional armies. I 
don't think Napoleon carried war to the local 
populations, or used scorched-earth techniques
(although he was, I think, the first to come 
up against guerilla warfare (in Spain)).


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