Newsgroups: sci.military
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From: woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)
Subject: Re: Civil War technology
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 90 18:20:55 GMT
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Message-ID: <1990Oct19.182055.17831@cbnews.att.com>
Keywords: Ironclads, Civil War
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From: woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)

In article <1990Oct18.021506.7493@cbnews.att.com$  writes:
$From: texbell!letni!digi!digi.lonestar.org!user1 ("USER1")
$In article <1990Oct11.050851.29295@cbnews.att.com$ cognos!geovision!pt@dciem (Paul Tomblin) writes:
$$From: cognos!geovision!pt@dciem (Paul Tomblin)
$$eos!woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood) writes:
$$$also... the ACW was the first prosecution of the concept of
$$$"Total War"  it wasn't enough to destroy the enemies' armed
$$$forces, we also had to destroy their ability to make war, hence
$$$Sherman's march to the sea.
$$Gwynn Dwyer's TV series about war (I think it was just called "War") 
$
$Well, not meaning to nit-pick, but I would say "Total War" was
$achieved much earlier than the 1800's in the 3rd Roman-Carthrage
$war in which after the Romans defeated Carthrage they looted
$and burned the city and then put salt in the soil of the entire area
$around Carthrage so that nothing would ever grow there again.
$Apparantly this worked pretty well because that is how Rome came
$to be the great power it was.
$

well, i have ti pick nits also... there is a big difference between
trashing a city (or city-state if you prefer) and laying waste
to area that constitute respectable countries in their own right.

sorry, i just don't see it as the same.  the earlier poster who
mentioned the Babylonians/Assyrians is closer to being on the
same order except that the slaughter was much worse.  at least
the romans took slaves.

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