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War is the mother of invention...The thing I always found interesting about the Civil War, were the military firsts, such as the first railway mortars artillery used in combat, first ironclads to see combat, submarines deployed and saw the transition of smoothbore to rifled weapons.
War is the mother of invention...
The next big war to be fought that had all of the elements seen in the Civil War would be WWI.
Which air force's tactics were most utilized in WWI? The North's or the South's?
One of the weaknesses, if you can call it that, of the Confederacy, was that they were steeped in Victorian Chivalry. President Davis may have been afraid that a direct attack on Washington might have created an "ugly scene" and preferred to force the Union to the table by other means, but that's just speculation on my behalf
Mister Turtledove has already given his verdict on the War of Northern Aggression. In "Guns of the South" the South won the war after being supplied with AK47s and field rations by way of a time machine.
... I thought Turtledove's was more entertaining and inventive
I only did Turtledove's World War; Earth vs The Race [ie space-lizards] and what an anti-climax the final book was - a real let-down.
Were those alternate US Civil War books any good?
the war was stupid on both sides and should never have happened.
It would all have happened without war when in 20 years the North had all the money. The South had all of the money in the 1860s, Tobacco and Cotton were tremendous cash crops and they were filthy rich off of them.I can agree that it was stupid, or at least led to "solutions", if you could call them that even today have affected in a bad way the development of American society.
But, given the differences that existed between North and South, prior to the war, I can hardly see anything but a war detemining the issue. The war was supposedly over States Rights, and the emancipation issue (which came later really). But I think in reality the war was fought over the future development of American society.....I think the South wanted an essentially agrarian class based society, whilst the North was much more broad based in its democratic principals, and sought to achieve that by relatively tight central control of government.
It wasnt that the South was less democratic, rather that the North needed more centrised control given its higher level of urbanisation, and industrialization. As societies urbanize, they generally liberalize as well
There's more than three books, I seem to remember there's about six; avoid the last oneI enjoyed them, I read all three books in one week
There's more than three books, I seem to remember there's about six; avoid the last one