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Who first used scorched earth techniques? And was it sucseful? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Scorched earth in the sense of destruction of one’s own infrastructure to slow or damage an enemy is also ancient

The most classic case is probably the Scythian campaign of Darius I, when the Scythians burned their own fields ahead of the invading Persians until Darius was forced to retreat.