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Originally Posted by Ursus Maior
Highly persistent chemical warfare agents are not really what a military usually looks for. If something sticks to surfaces for a long time, you endanger your own soldiers, either when reclaiming lost territory or passing through newly conquered. Using long persistence chemical agents is a lot like salting the land, except also contaminating buildings, wells etc. one might want to use.
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For short and maybe medium range I can see the above. But for longer distance strikes there are quite a few cases where area denial with difficult to remove contaminants would be very desirable. Airfields, Naval Bases, Logistical Hubs, POMCUS sites and Ports all come to mind. Long term it makes sense not to salt the Earth but sometimes the short term gains would be worth it.