Scorched Earth: (The Human Chronicles Saga Book #16)
Read Scorched Earth: (The Human Chronicles Saga Book #16) Online
Authors: T.R. Harris
Scorched Earth
The Human Chronicles Saga
#16
an Adam Cain adventure
by
T.R. Harris
Copyright 2016 by T.R. Harris
All rights reserved, without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanically, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
If you would like to be included on the master email list to receive updates and announcements regarding the series, including release notices of upcoming books, purchase specials and more, please fill out the
Subscribe
form below:
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
bytrharris.com
Novels by T.R. Harris
The Human Chronicles Saga
Jason King – Agent to the Stars Series
The Drone Wars Series
In collaboration with George Wier…
The Liberation Series
Contents
Scorched Earth
Campaign
…a military strategy that targets anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area. Specifically, all of the assets that are used or can be used by the enemy are targeted, such as food sources, transportation, communications, industrial resources, and even the people in the area.
The practice can be carried out by the military in enemy territory, or in its own home territory. It may overlap with, but is not the same as, punitive destruction of the enemy's resources, which is done for purely strategic/political reasons rather than strategic/operational reasons.
The most famous use of such a strategy in modern times was the operation carried out by
Captain Adam Cain
, UMF (et al), in a campaign directed against Juirean forces during the Second Human-Juirean War. Although historians are conflicted as to whether or not the operation was conducted under official sanction, the end results are undisputed. Depending on which side of the conflict is reporting, Captain Cain is considered either a hero or a villain for his command of the operation. Time will be the final arbiter in the matter of Adam Cain….