Hamas has spent years stockpiling desperately needed fuel, food and medicine, as well as ammo and weapons, in the miles of tunnels it has carved out under Gaza.
*after wwii. Goebbels most famous words are “Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?” from his speech at the Berliner Sportpalast in 1943. But even after wwii the US bombing campaigns and massacres in Korea and Vietnam still stem from a total war doctrine. It never really went away.
So cutting of food and water doesnt even hurt Hamas it’s just to be cruel to civilians?
Historically besieged armies didn’t starve their own citizens, everyone starved.
Yes, but the civilians starved before the army did. That’s what we’re seeing here.
From the total war doctrine, it does hurt Hamas, putting pressure on the civil government will hurt the ability to conduct war.
Their used to be a theory that you could break the fighting spirit of a people with embargos and bombings, but it fell out of favor in wwii.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war
*after wwii. Goebbels most famous words are “Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?” from his speech at the Berliner Sportpalast in 1943. But even after wwii the US bombing campaigns and massacres in Korea and Vietnam still stem from a total war doctrine. It never really went away.
When all you have is a hammer… I’m not sure it ever worked to break the fighting spirit.
Yep.