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by boomboomsubban 2789 days ago
The population growth makes any comparison difficult. For example, the Napoleonic wars killed about the same amount of people as the Vietnam War.

As for razing entire cities, the Korean War saw the US essentially raze a country. To quote General LeMay

>We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too.