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- The concept of scorched earth is sometimes applied figuratively to the business world in which a firm facing a takeover attempts to make itself less valuable by selling off its assets. The Scythians used scorched-earth methods against the Persian Achaemenid Empire, led by King Darius the Great, during his European Scythian campaign.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth
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A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy. Any assets that could be used by the enemy may be targeted, which usually includes obvious weapons, transport vehicles, communication sites, and industrial resources. However, anything
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The Scythians used scorched-earth methods against the Persian Achaemenid Empire, led by King Darius the Great, during his European Scythian campaign. The Scythians, who were...
See moreFurther use of scorched-earth policies in a war was seen during the 16th century in Ireland, where it was used by English commanders such as Walter Devereux and Richard Bingham
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During the third Napoleonic invasion of Portugal in 1810, the Portuguese population retreated towards...
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The British monk Gildas wrote in his 6th-century treatise "On the Ruin of Britain" on an earlier invasion: "For...
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On the Eastern Front of World War I, the Imperial Russian Army created a zone of destruction by using a...
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• Bellum se ipsum alet, the strategy of relying on occupied territories for resources
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