Even just regular war was awful before industrialization. Marching armies basically depleted every place they went through of resources, because for a long time there was just no other way to operate. And that means that the people whose food was just taken might starve in the near future.
And that’s if the army was nice, rape and pillaging of money and any valuable goods was also very common, even when the army was still marching within the area it was supposed to protect from invasion.
War isn’t nice nowadays, either, but it’s at least possible to arrive at a war theater without destroying every place on the way, too.
Even just regular war was awful before industrialization. Marching armies basically depleted every place they went through of resources, because for a long time there was just no other way to operate. And that means that the people whose food was just taken might starve in the near future.
And that’s if the army was nice, rape and pillaging of money and any valuable goods was also very common, even when the army was still marching within the area it was supposed to protect from invasion.
War isn’t nice nowadays, either, but it’s at least possible to arrive at a war theater without destroying every place on the way, too.