Why was it necessary to pulverize the civilian infrastructure of the country?

Finally he destroyed civilian infrastructure along his path of advance.

He considers it far more secure than any other part of the civilian infrastructure.

During the fall and winter of 2003, American forces focused on rebuilding civilian infrastructure and training local leaders in democracy.

The study concluded that Hamas made use of civilian infrastructures and population (including children) as human shields.

He went to Iraq, he said, to observe, to learn and "to protect the civilian infrastructure."

Nor could most Americans have understood, from their press, that the allied bombs were destroying the civilian infrastructure of a modern society.

And some evidence of a deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure?

The loss of human lives was coupled with the destruction of most civilian infrastructure.

Both the civilian infrastructure and the military infrastructure of the country were devastated during the war.