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They believed that this increased the difficulty of rational peacetime settlements even more difficult because anything could be a target in total war, from food to vehicles. "If it belongs to the enemy we will destroy it" is the idea of total war. Because of this idea it is much more difficult to create a rational peacetime settlement than did earlier types of warfare.

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