Sven Ortmann argues that we have internalized the late 19th/early 20th century (and early Roman, for that matter) thinking of strategic objectives of annihilation. Ortmann then proceeds to review a history of limited wars, ranging from the 17h-18th century "wars of maneuver" that Jomini and Foch so derided to the 1999 Kosovo Air War.
What is perhaps most disturbing about this review is how prevalent total war thinking is despite the fact that the US has been waging various form of limited or indirect war since 1945.
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