Original sentence: If the population of the world got to high, the military went to the region and burned it's inhabitants till the human population dropped enough to stop finding the government's secrets.It was used to help control the human population world wide using it as a death weapon
Edited sentence: Fire was the basis of all early thermal weapons.Homer detailed the use of fire by Greek commandos who hid in a wooden horse to burn Troy during the Trojan war.Hunter-gatherer groups around the world have been noted as using grass and forest fires to injure their enemies and destroy their ability to find food, so it can be assumed that fire has been used in warfare for as long as humans have had the knowledge to control it.In the First World War, the first modern flamethrowers were used by infantry, and were successfully mounted on armoured vehicles in the Second World War.In the Second World War, the use of napalm and molotov cocktails was popularized, though the former did not gain public attention until the Vietnam War.In the latter war, incendiary bombs were used by Axis and Allies alike, notably on Rotterdam, London, Hamburg and, notoriously, at Dresden, in the latter two cases firestorms were deliberately caused in which a ring of fire surrounding each city was drawn inward by an updraft caused by a central cluster of fires.Later the Byzantine fleet used Greek fire to attack ships and men.More recently many villages were burned during the Rwandan Genocide.The United States Army Air Force also extensively used incendiaries against Japanese targets in the latter months of the war, devastating entire cities constructed primarily of wood and paper houses