Within this episode I went through a narrative summary of Unit 8: 20th Century Global Conflicts for AP European History.
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War is no longer a clash between armies, but is a clash between nations, between whole populations. Any distinction between belligerents and non-belligerents is no longer admissible… because when nations are at war everyone takes a part in it, the soldier carrying his gun, the woman loading shells in a factory, the farmer growing wheat, the scientist in his laboratory. The limitations applied to the so-called inhuman and atrocious means of war are nothing but international demagogic hypocrisies… [Total] War has to be regarded unemotionally as a science, regardless of how terrible a science.
Giulio Douhet, Italian General and father of strategic air power, The Command of the Air, referenced in the 2006 book entitled Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller to explain the logic of “total war”, 1921.
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