Right wing armchairs understand the whole thing about how total war mobilizes the entire population to fight so therefore civilians are part of the war machine, but then just leave it at that and come to their own conclusions like "we should have just beat the shit out of them harder to demoralize them".
Of course, it doesn't occur to them that this can backfire. Unless they're the kind of military geniuses who think the terror tactics employed by the Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front or the Luftwaffe in the Blitz had no drawbacks whatsoever.
Right wing armchairs understand the whole thing about how total war mobilizes the entire population to fight so therefore civilians are part of the war machine, but then just leave it at that and come to their own conclusions like "we should have just beat the shit out of them harder to demoralize them".
Of course, it doesn't occur to them that this can backfire. Unless they're the kind of military geniuses who think the terror tactics employed by the Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front or the Luftwaffe in the Blitz had no drawbacks whatsoever.