Worldbuilding without the post-WW/WWII/Cold War glasses (TL, CR etc.)

[Anders]

Originally Posted by Lord Carnifex

Without the world wars, there's probably no concept of "total war" that involves attempting to destroy the enemy's industrial, transportation, and agricultural base as a means of impairing their abilty to continue making war. Without that basic idea, war becomes more about capturing such things rather than wiping them off the map.

I don't believe this. The ideological heavy lifting had already been done by Clausewitx.