Wars 4 Status Quo

LvMBlog: Mark Twain, who fought on the Confederate side, had chance to discuss military strategy with Grant, and relates to us as he did to Grant, how he would conduct war. He would retreat so often as to never give the enemy a chance to engage him and thus tire him into surrender. He boasted he was better at retreating than the man who invented the retreat!

Had Lee adopted this sound military strategy, the South would have been successful in its secession from the Union and the militarist Lincoln would have been defeated in his election for a second term. But no, men have to fight.

// posted by CN @ 5:07 PM