Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Military strategy" in English language version.
[...Clausewitz] wrote On War (1819), an attempt to synthesize strategy and the conduct of war within the state [...] it has become the standard reference for military theory.
Hitler wanted not only to eradicate the Jews; he wanted also to destroy Poland and the Soviet Union as states, eliminate their ruling classes, and kill tens of millions of Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles). If the German war against the USSR had gone as planned, thirty million civilians would have been starved in the first winter, and tens of millions more expelled, killed, assimilated or enslaved thereafter.
U.S. officials described Saddam Hussein's military strategy in Desert Storm as 'hunkering down.'
[... Milosevic] had a fairly promising strategy: hunker down, tolerate the bombing, and wait for Russian pressure or NATO internal dissension to weaken the alliance's resolve. [...] Had Milosevic not thoroughly 'cleansed' Kosovo [...] a hunker-down strategy might well have succeeded, as a number of NATO officials with whom we spoke acknowledged.
