Empire total war civil war8/28/2023 Total war or 'warfare as we know it' distinguishes itself by several linked features: the massive mobilization of state resources the indiscriminate targeting of civilian as well as military life the drive to exterminate the enemy (which promotes in turn a 'take no prisoners' or 'scorched earth' policy) and, consequently, destructiveness of enormous scale and intensity. With often chilling lucidity, Bell draws the lines of inheritance from 'The First Total War'-that is, the wars of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France-into the contemporary moment. ISBN 978 5 4.ĭavid Bell's study of the emergence of the concept and practice of total war turns to European war at the end of the eighteenth century, but aims itself finally at the early twenty-first century. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. ![]() The First Total War: Napoleon's Empire and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It.
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