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- Dictionaryscorched earth policy
noun
- 1. a military strategy of burning or destroying crops or other resources that might be of use to an invading enemy force.
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A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure. Its use is possible by a retreating army to leave nothing of value worth taking, to weaken the attacking force or by an advancing army to fig... Wikipedia