Abstract
Asia and the Pacific’s tenacious resistance to control provoked not only heightened aggression by means of industrial tools, but also an escalation in the attritional use of military weaponry. The steady merging of the rage of humans with arms geared towards wholesale destruction increasingly enabled furious wishes of extermination to be executed in cold blood.1
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© 2002 Peter Schrijvers
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Schrijvers, P. (2002). Technological Destruction. In: The GI War Against Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505278_11
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