The strategy of making land unfarmable so Hannibal's army could not feed itself.
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scorched earth policy
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...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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"...defeat Hannibal, and it worked, is something we call a scorched earth policy. Scorched earth policy."
"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..."
"...at fighting a war of attrition, right? Something called a scorched earth policy, which is how they defeated Charles II of Sweden as well..."
"...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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