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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
The idea isn't just to win in war; it is to win while maintaining your humanity. The U.S. is still recovering from the fallout. It is as much apparent today as it was all those decades ago. (At least I'd like to think there is a recovery process.)
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I couldn't disagree more. The idea in war is to win. Period. If you've gone to war, the alternative is not acceptable.
I cannot think of a modern war - with the possible exceptions of the Franco/Prussian War and WWI - that did not simulateously prosecute at least a modicum of violence on civilian populations. If nothing else, infrastucture to feed armies of soldiers did not exist until the late 19th Century. Prior to that armies lived off the land, which meant the local population. The ramifications of that live on in the US Bill of Rights, namely the Third Amendment.
I know of no country that would prefer defeat to victory without the preservation of humanity.