Deeply penetration into the enemy country, destroying all military and civilian infrastructures, like mills, railroads, bridges, forcing the civil population to leave towns and farms, depriving them of the crops, living on the country.
The invading force have to operate irrespective of his own line of communication and supply, leaving the enemy as long as possible uncertain about its very real strategic objective, thus preventing them from setting up an effective line of resistance and/or mounting a counter offensive.
Total war is when you involve all aspects of society in war, not just soldiers.
Sherman believed that the quickest way to end the war was to deprive the army of the means to fight and destroy the civilians' will to support the war was to annihilate the infrastructure that supported the war effort: the agriculture, transportation, communications, and manufacturing capability of the enemy. When there was no food, no munitions, no clothing, and no means to produce it, the will of the South to continue was broken.
It wasn't Grant who practiced total war, but Sherman. He decided that if he wiped out all crops, rail road routes, burned cities that the south would give in. After the war Sherman was asked to practice total war on the plains tribes by killing the buffalo herds.
Total War means that it is wat against not only the military of each country, but also against the civilians.
Total war means that everyone in the nation is fully involved in the war. Also that everyone has to sacrifice something for the war. An example for that is rationing, because everyone had to eat less food in order to be able to ship stuff overseas.
it involved a complete mobilization of resources and people.
Total war is when you involve all aspects of society in war, not just soldiers.
Destroy Everything. EVERYTHING!
Sherman believed that the quickest way to end the war was to deprive the army of the means to fight and destroy the civilians' will to support the war was to annihilate the infrastructure that supported the war effort: the agriculture, transportation, communications, and manufacturing capability of the enemy. When there was no food, no munitions, no clothing, and no means to produce it, the will of the South to continue was broken.
Total war means NOTHING is held back. If a combatant has nukes...he uses them. That's total war. WWII was total war. Total normally equals victory or defeat.
Total War is when a military uses all of their forces which include air force, forces attacking on water and soldiers attacking on land. Its significance to ww1 is that this is were the concept total war was developed.
Total war means 3 things. Total war means that a country's resources are expended during the war, that banking and other financial sources are cut off and geared toward the war, and that all armies are sent into the war.
destroying everything. all the people, it's resources the entire army
total war
Limited war (not total war). Total war implied using all available means (nuclear weapons).
Modern total war is best signified by World War I and World War II. However, before the term total war was developed the same concept did exist, as seen in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as with the American Civil War. It was not until the 20th century that total war was recognized as a distinct category of warfare.
No concept is an island means that no concept stands alone.