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| Aug 5, 2020 at 17:43 | comment | added | Dast | Great answer, +1. I expect this works great against a rational enemy. However some enemies are not rational. I could imagine an extremist enemy force might hypothetically exist who would prefer martyrdom over surrender, regardless of whether or not doing so has any chance of changing the outcome of the war. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 14:19 | comment | added | ceejayoz | @carlo This answer seems more complicated than that, though. Not just "attack with overwhelming forces", but simultaneously make it known a) you'll use those forces if you have to and b) you'd rather not. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 12:12 | comment | added | Willk | @carlo - that, and the street to street wrestling. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 10:50 | comment | added | vsz | "And today Paris is still really nice" - some other European cities were completely or almost completely destroyed during the war, but were then rebuilt and are really nice. Maybe even nicer than Paris which now has quite a number of ghettos. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 10:46 | comment | added | carlo | so your answer is simply "attack with overwhelming forces"? that's all you got? | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 8:25 | comment | added | RomainL. | Another similar historical situation existed, with the Mongols. They were known to levels city that did not surrender. | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 13:59 | history | edited | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 4, 2020 at 13:54 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |