Soviet Union and the United States

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By 1945, this was an old, old story. When General Sheridan adopted a terrorist campaign against civilians in the Shenandoah Valley in October, 1864, after Atlanta had fallen, and the Confederacy was clearly beaten, he made terrorism part of official American military strategy. Sheridan's cavalry conducted a hit-and-run arson campaign against women and children. It worked so well from the Union Army's point of view that Sherman immediately put it into mass production in his march to the sea. That strategy was adopted by European generals as the wave of the future, which it became.

We live in a monstrous era. What the West came to regard job function email list as unacceptable militarily during the Thirty Years War, 1618-48, in a murderous religious civil war in the German principalities, Western nations have adopted as national policy during wartime. They even adopt it in peacetime.

Military strategists of both the by the mid-1960's had adopted MAD: mutual assured destruction. Each side targeted its nuclear weapons against the other's urban civilian populations. Each side used the other's civilians as hostages in a strategy that prevailed for at least three decades. Neither side admitted to its own public that this is what the strategists had self-consciously done.

A few men spoke out against this in the late 1970's and the 1980's, including a couple of retired American generals, but the generals did not speak out publicly against MAD when they were in uniform. MAD ended – if it has actually ended – only when the Soviet Union collapsed.