Scorched Earth (disambiguation)
Scorched earth is the military strategy or operational policy of destroying everything useful to the enemy in areas that cannot be defended.
Pacific War
The Three Alls Policy ("Sankō Sakusen") was a Japanese scorched earth policy adopted in China, the three alls being: ""Kill All, Burn All and Loot All"". Initiated in 1940 by Ryūkichi Tanaka, the "Sankō Sakusen" was implemented in full scale in 1942 in north China by Yasuji Okamura. According to historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta, the scorched earth campaign was responsible for the deaths of "more than 2.7 million" Chinese civilians.