One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences by Bretislav Friedrich Dieter Hoffmann Jürgen Renn Florian Schmaltz & Martin Wolf

Author:Bretislav Friedrich, Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz & Martin Wolf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

The emollient intention of Pershing’s words was lost on Senator David Reed (R–Penn), who had been an artillery officer during the War:Are we, then, to go against an inferior antagonist, with all the abundance of artillery that the World War has left us, to blow out of existence a lot of peasants who scarcely know what the war is about? Or are we to take advantage of this great chemical opportunity which we, as a manufacturing nation, have open to us. Would it not be more merciful, assuming that we were at war with some Central American country, to win our battles by the temporary disabling of our enemies than to blow them all over their cactus plants? (McElroy 1991, 141)

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