The last war we actually won by every definition was WWII.
We bombed German and Japanese cities into dust, rubble, and cinders just to eliminate a few factories.
Trying to keep casualties to a minimum is a failure from the word go.
We can go back further in history to where it was common to completely eradicate and entire population to ensure their children would not come back to start the next war.
Wars should be complete, brutal, and without remorse, that keeps them short and ensures you don’t have to do it again.
Of course you can, you stop killing when you run out of targets, then you start hitting everything else you can think of they might use to reconstitute a fighting force until their will to carry the fight on is destroyed along with all of the hardware needed to carry on the fight.
Not at all, as long as I did my duty there was no guilt to be had.
The world is a very ugly place when you get out of your bubble.
In order for you to live in that bubble hard men have to do things you could never stomach in order to keep evil in check and to keep bad men from using you as a slave or sex toy or both.
The only reason you even know his name is because of his accomplishments.
He united the tribes of Mongolia which had never been done before in history and defeated the largest country on earth all in less than two decades.
He then ensured his name would live on when his own children became the rulers of that same great nation and ensured his bloodline would live on in perpetuity.
He conquered all or most of what today is Northern China and started his own dynasty.
At it’s height the Kahn’s empire covered 1/3 of Asia and most notably Ghengis Kahn was able to consistently defeat enemies with five to ten times the number of troops under Kahn’s command.
Studying his strategies and tactics is still required material for every military school and/or academy on the planet because he is still so respected.
