Total warfare

My Hero

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States.^[1] Military historian B. H. Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general".^[2

It takes a strategic plan to create a war campaign to end a bloody war.  General Sherman was a man who understood that the ordinary way of fighting just did not do.  One thing I strongly dislike, is when people don’t know how to get off the merry-go-round and try something new.  I have sat on committee’s that want to implement something new, but reject everything new.  General Sherman was tired of the war and he was willing to try something different.  I believe that you have to get tired of doing what is not working in your life.  If you keep fighting a battle with the same mentality, you will be defeated simply because there is no element of surprise.  The enemy knows exactly what you are going to do.  He does not expect you to praise God in the midst of cancer, or break out in singing in your loneliness or dance in the aisle when you lose your job.  You have got to do something else besides, hit the bottle or grab the pipe.  General Sherman was willing to take chances.  General Sherman employed a strategy called "total warfare".  He would not only strip the land of it's soldiers, but all it's resources rendering them helpless and waving a white flag.