On the 19th and 20th Century British Strategy of Starving Enemies and Subjects Into Submission (the Irish, the Boers, the Germans, and the Indians Being the Most Obvious Examples)

Yeah, that's a special kind of cruelty and you'd think that it would get more condemnation from historians but alas it doesn't (that profession - mush like our government - possessing more than its fair-share of Anglophiles).