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When you say "capturable", do you mean that in the sense that factories and their workers would be re-purposed for war?
by drakenot 10y ago
When you say "capturable", do you mean that in the sense that factories and their workers would be re-purposed for war?
- tangent128 10y agoThey presumably mean in the literal sense of "seizing as territory / spoils of war".
- pjc50 10y agoFor any purpose, including civilian purposes after the war is over. (One of the overlooked bits of the end of WW1 is the looting of German intellectual property by the US: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Pkl7HNzhXgoC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=information+feudalism+war+patents&source=bl&ots=3tAxtC-CmF&sig=_n0fuJ2xF48vcfW1uYcTQYVln_w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNiLSq1v3RAhUqKcAKHZn1CdoQ6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=information%20feudalism%20war%20patents&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Pkl7HNzhXgoC&pg=PA56&lpg... ; at the end of WW2 it was the rocket programme's men and materiel which got looted. So it's not entirely impossible to loot an advanced industry, but it does help if the men involved are keener to surrender to you than the Soviets.)