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The strategy of making land unfarmable so Hannibal's army could not feed itself.
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scorched earth policy
The strategy of making land unfarmable so Hannibal's army could not feed itself.
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"...defeat Hannibal, and it worked, is something we call a scorched earth policy. Scorched earth policy."
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"Basically make the land unfarmable. So then your army has no access to food. Okay? And that's how the ultimate defeated Hannibal. Because they..."
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"...at fighting a war of attrition, right? Something called a scorched earth policy, which is how they defeated Charles II of Sweden as well..."
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"...Why? Because Peter the Great will use something called a scorched earth policy. Basically, he knows that he cannot, on the battlefield, defeat the..."
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