Historybooks are 90% filled with tales of exterminations, slaughter of citystates and permanent area destruction.
If you glass the villages and salt the fields, you even win against the taliban and vietkong.
If you glass the villages and salt the fields, you even win against the taliban and vietkong.
You may win tactically, but you lose strategically - firstly by demonstrating that surrender is pointless, and secondly by creating a martyr movement across the world.
When you sow fields with salt, the only harvest you should reasonably expect is more blood.