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Topic	Why is Robert E Lee so overrated
UnfairRepresent 09/10/21 2:48:46 PM #42:	UnholyMudcrab posted... The South could never win a war of attrition against an enemy that had a larger population and a larger economic and industrial base than they did. It wasn't about winning. IT was about keeping the conflict ongoing and making it so costly and unpopular for the North that they simply gave up. And it could have worked. The war was divisive and expensive up North. Especially once they started a draft. Most of the North was racist and didn't want to die to end slavery. Worth noting this is how the US beat the British in the revolutionary war and how the Taliban just beat the US recently. Also how the Viet Cong beat the US. You don't have to conquer your opponent to beat them. Just keep it going until they give up. All you need is more passion. And the Confederacy had more passion than the Union. They easily could have "Won" the civil war in respect to becoming a seperate nation. It wasn't until Grant stepped up and went "Fuck it, let's just break their fucking back" that they truly were fucked. And as seen in this topic, people call Sherman a war criminal for that tactic. Even though his march was pretty much a conventional military advance done in pretty much every European war before, during or for a century after. --- ^ Hey now that's completely unfair! https://imgur.com/yPw05Ob <cite>UnfairRepresent posted [p:957921013] in Why is Rob... [t:79654880]...</cite> <quote>UnholyMudcrab posted... </cite> <quote>The South could never win a war of attrition against an enemy that had a larger population and a larger economic and industrial base than they did.</quote>It wasn't about winning. IT was about keeping the conflict ongoing and making it so costly and unpopular for the North that they simply gave up. And it could have worked. The war was divisive and expensive up North. Especially once they started a draft. Most of the North was racist and didn't want to die to end slavery. Worth noting this is how the US beat the British in the revolutionary war and how the Taliban just beat the US recently. Also how the Viet Cong beat the US. You don't have to conquer your opponent to beat them. Just keep it going until they give up. All you need is more passion. And the Confederacy had more passion than the Union. They easily could have "Won" the civil war in respect to becoming a seperate nation. It wasn't until Grant stepped up and went "Fuck it, let's just break their fucking back" that they truly were fucked. And as seen in this topic, people call Sherman a war criminal for that tactic. Even though his march was pretty much a conventional military advance done in pretty much every European war before, during or for a century after. --- ^ Hey now that's completely unfair! https://imgur.com/yPw05Ob</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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