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I was referring to wars prior to WWI—those where the loss of manpower was directly relevant to the harvest. And sure, wars could target civilians, and sometime
by danaris 5y ago
I was referring to wars prior to WWI—those where the loss of manpower was directly relevant to the harvest.
And sure, wars could target civilians, and sometimes did. But what you can be guaranteed of in a war is that soldiers will die.
- watwut 5y ago> And sure, wars could target civilians, and sometimes did. They very often do. It is not exceptional. In pretty much all wars, civilians die. Cities, villages, farms get attacked and destroyed along people in them. War where civilians don't die would be an exception. Also, wars happen where people live. > I was referring to wars prior to WWII In those, civilians died too, cities/villages were attacked for fun and profit and all that. In addition, prior wold wars, armies lived off the land. Meaning taking food off whoever happened to live there, by force if necessary. Meaning, additional deaths off lack of food.