Scorched Earth Policy

When you go to war with someone and decide that you do anything to win even if that means destroying your own resources so that they can't use them. It refers to the a strategy whereby a defensive retreating military will destroy the resources (food supply, bridges, water, power sources) to assure that the advancing opposing military cannot use them.

Scorched Earth policy: "If we go to war, I will use enact a scratched earth policy."

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