Hamas has spent years stockpiling desperately needed fuel, food and medicine, as well as ammo and weapons, in the miles of tunnels it has carved out under Gaza.
    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      From the total war doctrine, it does hurt Hamas, putting pressure on the civil government will hurt the ability to conduct war.

      Their used to be a theory that you could break the fighting spirit of a people with embargos and bombings, but it fell out of favor in wwii.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

      • mathemachristian[he]@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        *after wwii. Goebbels most famous words are “Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?” from his speech at the Berliner Sportpalast in 1943. But even after wwii the US bombing campaigns and massacres in Korea and Vietnam still stem from a total war doctrine. It never really went away.