https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmDusgHYtv4
I'd say that this trend of a nation's farmland and other infrastructure being taken away counts as a modern warfare method that we need to fight against.
To even imagine how the individual step can be a bad thing from the perspective of an average person's daily life takes a moment of actual thinking. Thinking a couple steps ahead.
Most people literally can't do that. Democracy makes that a national weakness.

