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   Pete Rogan

   September 18, 2015 at 3:45 pm | #

   Since the end of the Second World War the proportion of combat losses sustained by civilian, not military populations, has been steadily rising. Guerrilla operations became insurgencies, and combat became more and more asymmetrical as uniformed troops engaged less well-equipped opponents with more and more destructive weaponry. The difference between a hostile populace and combatants became less and less practically important; you treated both as forces to contain or, at need, eliminate.

   You can argue that this tradition goes back to Sherman and his March to the Sea from Atlanta in the Civil War. But the modern tendency is taking the shape of the racial and religious differences between the combatants — the same sort of racial warfare that Adolf Hitler tried to bring about, a world without states, where races alone would struggle not just for supremacy but survival. Like it or not, we are now all enmeshed in Global Total Racial Holy War. No outcome can be predicted, but losses are certain.