Frankly, I think people just don't get that the ACW was a complete amateur hour affair from start to finish, lead by people who never expected to lead anything larger than what would be considered a small to medium sized corps.
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Anglos are terrible at professional warfare send tweet
sep 5, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
People constantly talk up the Union's manpower and industrial advantage, but by far the biggest bottleneck during the war was semi-competent officers. The ANV lucked out immensely at the start by somehow ending up with three officers semi-capable of leading large forces.
aug 29, 2025, 9:21 pm • 15 1 • view
If you factor in died of wounds, it's likely that more Americans died in combat on a single day at Antietam than during the entirety of the Revolutionary War.
aug 29, 2025, 9:23 pm • 7 0 • view
Spicy ass take: this is a classic case of an imperial occupation and counterinsurgency army being totally unprepared for a peer or near peer cony
aug 29, 2025, 9:33 pm • 5 0 • view
Extremely so.
aug 29, 2025, 11:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Biiiiingo
aug 29, 2025, 9:30 pm • 1 0 • view