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When people hear "secular" over there, they think of Al-Assad, Hussein, etc.

Notre Dame can be as good as Michigan or Purdue.

Trying to compared 1914-1918 with 1862-65? Seems a literal foolish. Honestly seems that you're defensive about the idea of USA not being...

I'm more familiar with Gettysburg so I'll comment on that. The use of direct frontal assaults was one of the most common European...

Plenty of European observers recognized the amateur aspect of the Union and Confederate armies. They were essentially militias...

At the start of the war, both sides were grabbing any weapon they could get their hands on. You don't just manufacture a million 1861...

This is a Civil War myth. The armies were largely untrained on using their rifles at distance. While there were sharpshooter units, the...

I dont agree with this. The North still had to bring the fight to the enemy. That takes political will. I am more of a western theater...

By the 1860s neither the US, nor major European powers were capable of projecting enough power across the Atlantic to be able to defeat...

I dont think the Union armies, Sherman's or Grant's, would stand much of a chance against a French or Prussian army if all other factors...

Nothing to add here except that the South weren't beating the Prussians or French armies at that time. Not a chance.

I mean the Crimean War was just a few years before the Civil War. A group of American generals tried to go over and be observers, and...

My understanding is that Moltke also thought the Union/Confederate armies were basically just armed mobs. In his view, their tactics...

Because us that watched every snap know he had significant limitations. He was out of the league in like 2 years despite being a mid...