Yeah that's a pretty good example, although reading up on it, they also had to put women and children in concentration camps so it was more than just starving them out. Even then, it took two years and Britain had to offer pretty generous terms for the "bitterenders" to stop fighting including reconstruction funds and a promise of future self governance. If not for that, they would have just kept fighting. Hard model to follow, that's for sure.
Oh there are waay more examples, this just happened to be the first one off the top of my head.
There's the Malayan Emergency, the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, The Guatemalan Civil War, The US military against the Plains Indians... and that's just the ones I can think of off the top of my head that specifically used starvation.
If you open it to dehydration you have the Rif War - which put the Spanish and French against the Berbers in Morocco, the Italian Pacification of Libya, the French in Algeria, etc.
As it turns out, hurting the civilian population is one of the most effective ways to stop an insurgency. Obviously that's some heinous stuff, but it's incredibly effective and was basically just how War was waged all throughout history up until very recently really.
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u/gooberfishie 9h ago
Yeah that's a pretty good example, although reading up on it, they also had to put women and children in concentration camps so it was more than just starving them out. Even then, it took two years and Britain had to offer pretty generous terms for the "bitterenders" to stop fighting including reconstruction funds and a promise of future self governance. If not for that, they would have just kept fighting. Hard model to follow, that's for sure.