Re: OT: Another Simberg satire?

Dave Michelson <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

AFAIK, your General Sherman was the first modern military commander to
recognize this. His strategy of economically crippling and
psychologically intimidating the rebels during his famous March to the
Sea has led to his being recognized as one of the fathers of modern
warfare.

Somewhat exaggerated. What Sherman did was an innovation mostly
against the background of what Americans had been used to in the Civil
War until then, and the larger background of the relatively
"gentlemanly" tactics of professional warfare prevailing (with many
exceptions) in Europe in the 18th and early 19th century.

It's not as if "economically crippling and psychologically
intimidating" the enemy while marching and fotaging through his
territory was a keen new insight that had never occurred to (or been
applied _de facto_ by) any commander since Sargon of Akkad...

Monte Davis
http://montedavis.livejournal.com
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