Despite that, Sherman's march to the sea is still how you win a war. You don't pussyfoot about, whining like a woman about "Oh no what if I ganked a civvie?" You crush your enemies and hear the lamentations of their women.

This is why the US loses wars in modern times. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. We don't go there to execute a war, we go in and play pretend policeman with peoples who will never exist peacefully in our fake and gay democratic system. So you know what you do to get them to comply? You eradicate them, level entire cities until the populace's will is broken. Then you reform them from the ground up. We did exactly that to Japan in WW2 and look how they thrive now

Of course, Sherman was wrong because it was a civil war and you don't do that shit to your own people