Response to Charlie Koch

In response to this

I agree that total war in one sense total war can be beneficial because everyone in society is forced to engage in some way, and therefore makes decisions that are more informed and more in-tune with the war effort.  But, I think that the brutality and death that happens during total war, because total war is only fought over things that are truly important, and therefore countries will not surrender until they have depleted nearly all their army, does not make it beneficial for societies.  It can be very crippling for a nation to lose an entire generation of young men in a war, especially if the war is lost.  There is still death in smaller wars, but not on the scale that total war implies.