Question

explain 'a scorched earth policy'

Answer 1

A scorched earth policy is a strategy to prevent a takeover in which the target company seeks to make itself less attractive to hostile bidders. Tactics include selling off assets, taking on high levels of debt, and initiating other activities that may damage the company if it is purchased. In extreme cases, a scorched earth policy might end up being a “suicide pill.”

Answer 2

When you go to war with someone and decide that you do anything to win even if that means destroying your own resourcesso that they can't use them. It refers to the a strategy whereby a defensive retreating military will destroy the resources (food supply, bridges, water, power sources) to assure that the advancing opposing military cannot use them.

Scorched Earth policy: "If we go to war, I will use enact a scratched earth policy."

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