Scorched earth
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title:
Scorched earth
text:
A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure. Its use is possible by a retreating army to leave nothing of value worth taking, to weaken the attacking force or by an advancing army to fight against unconventional warfare. Scorched earth against non-combatants has been banned under the 1
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Military strategy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth
date created:
2003-01-03T03:54:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T11:47:25Z
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