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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...