It's historically rare for homeland "hardship" to be a fast path to victory. More likely it would induce a total war mentality and calls for reprisal attacks.

It's historically rare for homeland "hardship" to be a fast path to victory. More likely it would induce a total war mentality and calls for reprisal attacks. The British aisles hadn't seen war since the 1700s prior to WW1. Neither German strategic bombing in WW1 nor the much larger blitz in WW2 brought about surrender or capitulation.