....A.J.P. Taylor reports that by the end of the 141 day massacre, the British had nothing to show but 420,000 casualties. The French had nothing to show but 200,000 casualties. The Germans had 450,000 casualties and intact lines. That comes to 1,070,000 casualties. According to American Battlefield Trust, the total casualties both sides of four years of Washington’s most bloody war–Lincoln’s invasion of the Confederate States of America– was 620,000.....
....What we are faced with today is that there won’t be a second war. Until WW II armies fought armies. During WW II war against civilians was initiated by Winston Churchill. At the time it was considered a war crime, and Churchill kept the British bombing attacks on German cities secret from the British people. The American fire bombing of Tokyo was also a war crime and culminated in the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today wars are fought against civilians. Israel in Gaza is an example. In present day war plans, nuclear missiles are aimed at the opponent’s civilian cities, not against armies. The aim of nuclear war is to destroy the country and the population of the opponent. It is civilians who are at risk.
Americans need to understand that when generals talk about war today, it is the lives of civilians that are at risk.
