[belltaco]

Did you read the link? It was about a strategy of intentionally removing access so that things wouldn't fall into hands of Japan if they successfully invaded.

> In 1942, as a result of the Japanese conquest of Burma that began that year, the colonial government in India introduced a "denial policy" in Bengal, a scorched earth policy designed to deny Japan access to food and transport should it invade Bengal. Mukerjee attributes the "scorched earth" approach to Churchill, who reportedly urged it on 14 November 1941.[7] The "rice denial" policy saw soldiers confiscate and destroy rice deemed surplus; according to one journalist, thousands of tons of rice were thrown into the water in east Bengal.[8] The "boat denial" policy saw 46,000 boats able to carry more than ten passengers confiscated; bicycles, carts and elephants were also taken.

The analogy would be if the US had sufficient control of Ukraine, and removed and destroyed infrastructure in east Ukraine so that the Russians cannot use it if they capture that territory.

[cafard]

Or Wellington's retreat to the lines outside Lisbon, during which resources were destroyed to deny them to the French army.