Original sentence: " As a consequence of the practice of clear-felling, deforestation resulted which could "be replaced only by long forestry development over perhaps a century.Before the onset of the Cold War defeated Germany was still considered a potential future threat rather than potential future ally.One unusual example of deliberate deforestation is that which took place in the U.Sources in the U.To address this threat, attempts were made to lower German industrial potential, of which forests were deemed an element.War can also be a cause of deforestation, either deliberately such as through the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War where together with bombs and buldosers it contributed to the destruction of 44 percent of the forest cover, or inadvertently such as in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa where bombardment and other combat operations reduced the lush tropical landscape into "a vast field of mud, lead, decay and maggots".While the preponderance of deforestat is due to demands for agricultural and urban use for the human population, there are some examples of military causes.government admitted that the purpose of this was the "ultimate destruction of the war potential of German forests.zone of occupation in Germany after World War II