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war as patience contest: whoever starves, thirsts, or gives up first loses.
means a military strategy of surrounding a fortified place and cutting off supplies until it surrenders or is stormed.
from from latin sedere, to sit — literally the art of sitting outside someone's walls until they cave, formalized from ancient assyrian siege engines through medieval castle warfare.
longest siegeleningrad lasted 872 days, ww2
trench originsiege tactics birthed modern trench warfare
disease weaponbesiegers catapulted plague corpses over walls
tunneling tricksappers dug under walls to collapse them
for instance
siege of leningrad — 872 days, 1941-1944, over a million civilian deaths
siege of constantinople — 1453, ottoman cannons finally ended byzantium
siege of masada — 73 ce, romans vs jewish rebels ending in mass suicide
siege of vicksburg — 1863, grant starved confederates into surrender in 47 days