God's Warriors (CNN)

[Peter666]

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Those are hardly acts that required new depths of evil; merely better technology for the same old evil.

E.g., "total war" predates the OT Israeli conquest of Canaan, I don't see why you give Sherman credit for inventing it.

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Sherman is considered to be one of the first generals to consciously and deliberately use total war as a military strategy. Your point of improving values since 0 AD doesn't account for the devolution of values in real life.