The correct answer is: 2) Sherman's March to the Sea
The term “total war” was first coined in 1927 by Italian General Guilio Douhet. Douhet who described total war as “the entire population and all the resources of a nation are sucked into the maw of war.
Sherman’s strategy was cutting off his supply lines and foraging off the land through which his troops traveled left Georgia and the Carolinas with no food, livestock, and, in many cases, homes. Sherman effectively destroyed not only the economy of the South but the morale of Confederate forces. This is why total war is effective. It destroys the enemy’s resources on every front. The economy is destroyed, morale is crushed, and the enemy’s ability to effectively field an army is utterly obliterated.
