by Subjectivist » Thu 05 Jan 2017, 11:48:43
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This video on the Great war present on of the fundamental dynamic of the conflict
World War 1 was the first total war , all weapons imaginable were tried it was a spiral down to Hell
it came down to deliberately starving out the enemy civilians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_x8Mct ... &index=127"Starving For Total War - Turnip Winter 1916 I THE GREAT WAR Special"
I would argue the exact opposite, World War I was the last time anyone used every weapon available to fight. In World War II, Korea, VietNam and everywhere else since World War I ended the people in control have strangly restrained the military weapon choices. TPTB including Hitler, Stalin, Truman, Churchill, and all their succsessor have not used nerve gas, or radioactive dust, or bacteriological warfare against their enemies even when they were losing. Germany ended 1944 with large stocks of nerve gas they could have used to hit all their enemies. Japan had bacteriological weapons that would have been a problem for the allies if they had been used. The UK and America had vast stocks of Chlorine and Phosgene and Mustard Gas they could have used in 1941-42 when things were going badly for the Allies. None of these were used in World War II or any of the regional conflicts after the war, and even the A-bomb was only used twice in August 1945.
