The scorched earth strategy.

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The “scorched earth” tactic conveys the depletion of any objects during the approach, so that the enemy does not reach them.

At the hour of the Great German War, both the Radian and German sides were at a standstill.

Manstein was one of the proponents of this tactic.

In 1942-1944 he commanded the group army “Don” and “Pivden”.

In the spring of 1943, at the hour of entry into the Left Bank Ukraine, Manstein, the final order of Goering, stagnated with this reception.

He wrote: “In the area 20-30 km in front of the Dnieper, everything that could help the enemy safely carry out his attack on a wide front along that river was destroyed, stripped, or taken to the ground, so that everything that could appear for the new i forces in front of our Dnieper positions in Ukritty and the place of quartering, and everything that could ease my supply, especially the food supply of my army.”

Although the order is also secret, it was assigned to a small group of people, demonstrating well how the Third Reich, with the help of rhetorical means, veiled the war, which would be carried out at a gathering, on the basis of poverty.

The “cleansing” marked a large-scale offensive, which became necessary after the Battle of Kursk and the beginning of the counter-insurgency of the Radian troops.

“A policy of ruin is necessary” - this was the strategy of the “scorched earth”.

The most important order is that today the Federal Military Archives in Freiburg have the following orders: “It is necessary to carry out large-scale raids on territories that can be cleared, for example, puppies, dairy farms and similar enterprises, equipment and various types of devices that are imported I’m weak, I’m thin, because for whatever reason I can’t be taken home, I’m giving birth to the bedroom.”

900,000 “evacuated” per month

Another order, seeing a little earlier, the death of the civilian population.

At the entrance of the army, they emptied everything that was found on their way.

“Everything that localism gave was initially taken up by those who rose up, and then, as a rule, was wasted.

“The villages and places, the mown and trampled fields, the empty wells, the muddy waters have been deprived,” wrote Carl von Clausewitz in his book “About the War.”

The author wrote about the arrogance of German soldiers.

The destruction of infrastructure and discipline played a significant role even during the hours of the Thirty-Family War and before the Napoleonic era.

At the end of the huge US war, the Union generals also advocated the “scorched earth” strategy in order to destroy the spirit of the huge population of Pivdni.

As a defensive approach, Stalin resorted to these tactics when the Radian armies in 1941 and 1942 stagnated during the retreat.

The Polish commanders suddenly realized that their people were more ruined than they were gaining new resources for a land that was starving.

Harsh punishments appeared about the protection of looting and the strangulation of the valuable population.

“The skin of the slaughtered creature that was lost alive in the territories that are being cleared means that in Batkivshchyna one more creature will have to be slaughtered,” the general conveyed the sense of “scorching the earth” to his fellows.

The dialectic of approach, ideological doctrine and punishment for destitution, the struggle for freedom and extremely high tension caused moral tension.

Once the German divisions reached the frontier on the Dnieper, they managed to “clay” the region on the similar birch river and turn it into desert, as an order, upgrading to the 7th division.

On the night of the 27th to 28th leaf fall of 1941 in the village of Petrishchevo, a fighter from the Radian sabotage and reconnaissance group of Arthur Sprogis - Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the village living hut was set on fire, and German soldiers were scattered and i flock. It was collected by local villagers and given to someone else.

then they hung it up.

ORDER OF THE SUPREME HEAD COMMAND HEADQUARTER No. 0428

1. Ruin and burn all populated areas near the German army with a wind 40 - 60 km in depth from the front edge and 20 - 30 km right-handed and left-handed from the roads.

To deplete populated areas within a designated radius, launch undisclosed aircraft, widely attack artillery and mortar fire, reconnaissance teams, skirmishers and partisan sabotage groups, provided with weapons and with fuse madness, grenades and wild tricks.

2. At the skin regiment, create teams of soldiers of 20 - 30 people to bruise and salivate the settlements where the enemy’s troops are leaving.

The Mysli team must select the most important and important political and moral fighters, commanders and police officers, making it clear to them that this is the most important approach for defeating the Germans which army.

Prominent mercenaries for important actions due to the depletion of settlements, in which the German troops were dismantled, are represented up to the district town.

3. In the event of a forced entry of our units into this or any other business, we will take the civilian population with us and obligatoryly capture all populated areas without guilt, so that the enemy cannot conquer them.

For this purpose, we would like to see the Myslyvtsy team in the police force. 4. The Military Councils of the fronts and other armies will systematically review how to resolve the issue of depletion of population centers in the designated radius of the front line.

In every 3 days, we will report to the local authorities how many poor people in the population centers have achieved these results over the past few days and by what means.

Headquarters of the Supreme High Command

I. STALIN Tactics of “scorched earth”

- a method of waging war, in which the army, which enters, is carried out outside and the large-scale depletion of all vital supplies for the enemy (food, burning, etc.) and any objects of industrial, agricultural, civil recognition The goal is to prevent them from being defeated by the advancing enemy .

The term “scorched earth” is used only before combat operations, during which the army advances, and captures objects that may be of greater importance to the enemy. Tactics of “scorched earth”

The “scorched earth” tactics are protected by Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Convention.

XV century Tactics of “scorched earth”

For example, 1474 rub. during the struggle between the Ottoman Empire and the Moldavian Principality.

The numerically large Ottoman army, together with the Rumelian beylerbey Suleiman Pasha, entered the territory of the Moldavian principality. Tactics of “scorched earth”

Having adopted the tactics of “scorched land,” the Moldavian prince Stefan III led the enemy to defeat Vaslui (10 June 1475).Tactics of “scorched earth”

XIX centuryTactics of “scorched earth”

Napoleonic Wars

Perenean Wars At the hour of the (third) Napoleonic invasion of Portugal in 1810, upon the entry of the Portuguese to Lisbon, they were ordered to seize all food supplies that could be obtained by the French. The order was given through the looting of the French armies and the brutal extermination of the masses in the hour of the advance invasion.

AfterwardsTactics of “scorched earth”

Battle of Busacou

Massena's army marched on Coimbra, where most of the Old University and the city's libraries were plundered, buildings and furniture were destroyed, and a number of civilians were killed.

There were cases where British soldiers were robbed, and even such cases were investigated and the perpetrators punished. Tactics of “scorched earth”

When the French troops reached the Torres Vedras line near Lisbon, the French soldiers said that the place was more like a wasteland.Tactics of “scorched earth”

When Massena reached the place of Viseu, hoping to replenish the army's food reserves, which were lying bare, the place turned up empty, and the only provisions that, having become deprived of grapes and lemons, were rapidly growing in large quantities, Also a lot of calories.Tactics of “scorched earth”

One of the largest and most prominent examples of the historical “scorched earth” tactics is Operation Ranch Hand, which was carried out by the US Army during the war in Vietnam to clear the jungles of Laos and Vietnam. mi.

War at the Persian CastleTactics of “scorched earth”

Current position of marriageTactics of “scorched earth”

Protocol I of the Geneva Convention 1977 protects the shortage of military supplies and water resources for the civilian population.

Article 54, Amendment to the Protocol of the First Geneva Convention of 1977

The consequences of the stagnation of scorched earth tactics are indicated heretofore.

Among the countries that have not yet ratified Protocol I are the USA, Israel, Iran, Pakistan. [ | ]

Div. also Tactics of “scorched earth”

1. NotesEnglish version updated to Protocol 1 of the Geneva Convention of 1977 PDF
2. (English)English version updated to Protocol 1 of the Geneva Convention of 1977
3. Translation of an amendment to Protocol 1 of the Geneva Convention of 1977

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i.e.: different lining of equally close dates.

The scorched earth tactic is a method of conducting combat operations that reduces everything to a victorious or potentially destructive enemy.

This term is currently being used in the wake of the Vietnam War, since the American military began to actively use napalm to reduce the enemy’s strategic targets (mainly ground-based food warehouses), and well the place of the enemy’s buying up.

The trick lay in the fact that the napalm, after hitting the ground of the mountains for another hour, penetrated the narrow catacombs, like caustic smoke, covering them inaccessible to cover.

British soldiers burn Boer towers

Victimization of the scorched earth tactics before another light war

Scythian campaign of Darius I

White War 1812

Another Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

Vikoristannya of the “scorched earth” tactics of the RSHA

On the beginning of the Great German War, June 3, 1941. V. Stalin launched a massacre to the people from the promotion, in the present onset of the words: “With the persecuted arrival of parts of the Red Army, it is necessary to steal the entire junk warehouse, not to deprive the enemy of the railway locomotive, not a single carriage, not to deprive the enemy of one kilogram of bread, one liter of baked goods .

Colgospniks are guilty of stealing all the thinness, handing over the bread for saving to the state authorities for exporting them from the military regions.

November 17, 1941 Viyshov Order of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, which calls for “in the event of a deliberate entry of our units into this or any other business, to take over the civilian population and to destroy all settlements without guilt, so that the enemy I couldn’t stop them from being victorious.