Total war is a conflict of unlimited scope in which a belligerent engages in a mobilization of all available resources at their disposal, whether human, industrial, agricultural, military, natural, technological, or otherwise, in order to entirely destroy or render beyond use their rival's capacity to continue resistance.
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Total war means calling up all of your resources to battle and attacking your enemies troops, civilians, infrastructure and battle resources like weapon factories.
Making war on the civilian infrastructure that supports the armies in the field.
Attacking the civilian infrastructure of the Confederacy, to destroy the farms and railroads in order to starve the Confederate troops in the field, and wreck the economy.
Total war means that soldiers kill not only other soldiers, but everything that's in sight.
The Strategy used during both world wars is Total War
Total war was General Sherman's strategy. He was to use total war to destroy the resources of the south. I am also a civil war expert so you can trust my answer.
Until the end of the war, tactics on both sides remained the same as in Napoleonic times. The union strategy was a blockade strategy at sea and on the rivers, coupled with a total war strategy to destroy the means of producing war supplies on land.
Total war is a war in which a belligerent engages in the complete every human resource, even that of non-combatants, as nevertheless part of the war effort.
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