Question

Which of the following is an example of total war? imprisoning enemy soldiers capturing the enemy’s artillery vandalizing the enemy’s private homes destroying the enemy’s ammunition

Answer 1

Answer: C: Vandalizing private homes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Total war is used in times when the stakes are considered much too high for a side to be merciful on the other. Total war consists of going through civilian villages, routing and ransacking averything possible. Every other option is used even in normal circumstances, so the correct answer is C.

Answer 2

Vandalising the enemy's private homes

Step-by-step explanation:

The warfare in which all the resources are mobilised to fight the war and all the enemy's resources and infrastructure is viewed as legitimate military targets is known as total war. It means that there are no restriction s on the weapons, combatants or territory and the laws of war are not followed. It nineteenth century it was considered as a separate class of warfare.

The origin of this word can be trace back as the Carl von Clausewitz book On War and to the book Der Totale Krieg written by Erich Ludendorff and published in 1935. Strategic bombing, Blockade, Scorched Earth policy and Commerce raiding, all are concepts of total war.