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So what is your alternative if you think it is such a bad idea...surrender...
Yes that is exactly what you do and they did
So what is your alternative if you think it is such a bad idea...surrender...
But the pattern of guerrilla warfare and all the problems with accomplishing any success would have been already been worked through and established and rather than surrender just keep on fighting a guerrilla war which could become exciting with the advance of new weapons...and finally weapons of mass destruction...The Confederacy had a chance of victory in 1862. This fell into two possibilities, the Union growing tied of the war or European intervention. After the end of 1862 the Confederate path to victory was narrow and getting narrower. In 1863 the odds of Europe intervening were probably gone and this left the North growing tired of the war and giving up the fight. The reelection of Lincoln in 1864 insured the Confederacy would lose. By the time Sherman began his March to the Sea the Confederacy had two options, negotiate a peace, or lose the war. By December of 1864 the Confederacy had little to negotiate with. I believe your black-flag tactics would have had little effect on the outcome of the war, but could well have brought a very hard time after the war for the South. Lincoln and the Union was not going to give the Confederacy everything the Confederacy wanted in 1865.
Yes that is exactly what you do and they did
Donr, I've got to hand it to you - you are persistent, sir.
Where are any 19th century WMDs going to come from within a Confederacy that, by this point, had almost no manufacturing capacity and even less infrastructure to move it to the target areas? Any new weapons developed during a posited insurgency would have been manufactured almost exclusively in the North.
I continue to not see this. Sorry sir.
Morgan's Raid, Lawrence, and Chambersburg didn't seem to have any negative impact on Union morale.
I'm not trying to be nasty or anything, but, it's not my job to figure out a way for them to win. My guess is that they exhausted all reasonable means to achieve victory.So what is your alternative if you think it is such a bad idea...surrender...
Maybe they could have got some ninjas from Japan. Or Cossacks from Russia. Or Sith Lords from a galaxy far, far away.In this "what if" situation I would assume these men would come out of existing cavalry units / new volunteers and form a "special" unit separate from the the other cavalry...I do not know the protocol to do this officially....special forces...
Boy,
Maybe they could have got some ninjas from Japan. Or Cossacks from Russia. Or Sith Lords from a galaxy far, far away.
What if they got Godzilla? Or, I'm thinking outside the box here, a couple of those nasty Aliens.
To an extent . The Germans also would set up their own local COIN troops in each occupied country. The Milice of France being a prime example. The Germans would take care to establish good relations with at least a section of a given poulation.
Leftyhunter
What if the South had of implemented a "black-flag" strategy right after Sherman started plundering civilians in the deep South -- would this have immediately brought the negotiators from both the North and South together and ended the war with each country going its separate ways? (By "black-flag" strategy I mean have Confederate cavalry raid the North and totally looting and burning every city, farm and house to the ground in their path and killing on the spot any civilian found and whatever wasn't destroyed haul it back down to the South.)
Absolutely true. The Reconstruction Arkansas State Militia composed mostly of ex Unionist soldiers with a few ex Confederates did defeat the KKK.Speaking of COIN soldiers, had the rebellion resorted to partisan warfare after its armies were defeated the Freedmen and southern Unionists could've made first rate COIN soldiers.