Meaning

2 senses
  1. A strategy that involves destroying buildings, crops, and other resources that could be useful to opponents.

  2. (figuratively)An intentional course of action that is drastic or ruinous.

    Politik der verbrannten Erde, Taktik der verbrannten Erde

    тактика выжженной землиtaktika vyžžennoj zemli

    тактика спаленої земліtaktyka spalenoji zemli

More definitions
  • the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels

Translations

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Origin

See scorched earth.

See scorched earth.

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