Adopting surströmming as a weapon system will greatly simplify logistics, because it is so universal. It can be used offensively, defensively, for area denial, and as rations. On top of that, it will be utterly useless, or even outright dangerous to the enemy in the event they manage to capture some of it.

This could also be used to spice up the old Canadian tactic of throwing canned food across no man's land to the logistically challenged enemy's trenches, only to follow up with hand grenades once they get used to the deliveries.

At least this chemical weapon is 100% biological, so the hippies won't protest it.

Guess how they "find" all those "ancient" bones?

He had principles and that shows in all of his work, and in what he did. Unfortunately I haven't gotten around to reading most of his non-fictional work.

That kinda proves my point, right?

Orwell's best and most important work isn't even a book, but it is, indeed, non-fiction.

In the age of sail, navies did maintain forests for building future ships. Often trees were specifically grown into shapes needed for strongly curved parts of the hull, because bending of large timbers was difficult to impossible, and parts built up out of multiple timbers were always weaker than single timbers in the right shape. If you wanted to severely limit an enemy's future capability to project power, all you had to do was to set fire to their naval lumber stockpiles and uproot their naval forests.

Highly depends on the place. There are countries where remnants of medieval customs around commons have become modern law, allowing people (usually residents of the community to which the forest belongs) to gather fallen branches as firewood in public forests. In some places this even goes so far that communities have to make a certain percentage of the wood harvested from their public forests available to their residents for free.

Platon would challenge you to a fist fight if you happened to disagree with him, though. Very compelling argument, but I'm not perfectly sure that this is fair.

Maybe one could use the resulting gases as a means of propulsion to speed up the transit?

This time, it wasn't the Simpsons that predicted the future, but Futurama!