American Civil War Battles

[C-Mag]

This is why a don't weep for them, the Lakota were imperialists, they simply ran into a bigger and badder empire.

Live by the sword, die by the sword, no tears need be shed, for the wicked.

I'd say the Sioux are survivors, very flexible attitude, much more so than most tribes. They were originally a upper Mississippi and Great Lakes people, utilizing some of the best ground on the continent, probably had a huge hand in the St Louis culture. But when they Huron and Iroqois started getting pushed west from eastern colonization, they fought some bloody battles against other tribes, but said fuck it and moved west, adopted the semi-nomadic hunter lifestyle.

A very resilient tribe. There are few American tribal names that are really known globally, the Navajo, the Cherokee, Mohawks and Sioux. Three of those tribes are remembered because they were survivors and fought hard. The Mohawk are remembered for a story and a haircut.

[Smitty-48]

Prussia and Hanover rules them now, God save King George of Virginia.

North German Protestants ftw, otherwise known as the White Anglo-Saxons.

[Smitty-48]

Best scene in the whole movie, Confederate Obi-Wan Kenobi meets Confederate Han Solo.

[Ex-California]

I never really knew about all the on-river naval battles until I started reading Foote. Any good books about those?

[C-Mag]

It's like, there's Europeans, and then there is the North German Protestants of Prussia and Hanover.

The Lakota were the North German Protestants of the Indians.

Prussians
Take Balto-Slavic-Viking heathens, mix in Teutonic Theocracy run by Knights and get an ultra militaristic culture...……….. Rennaisance Sparta of the North.

[C-Mag]

I never really knew about all the on-river naval battles until I started reading Foote. Any good books about those?

Farragut's direct impact on winning the Civil War is completely underestimated.

[Smitty-48]

I would submit that the ACW riverine is the seed which changes maritime warfare into what we have now.

Basically the Union wanted a Gunboat which could sail the high seas to enforce the blockade.

This incites the newly minted MIC to come up with the Monitor.

The Monitor is all warships after up to this day.

This is why the Behemoth scared the British.

Not only was it five times the size of the British Army, it had advanced naval technology which imperiled the RN.

[brewster]

I would submit that the ACW riverine is the seed which changes maritime warfare into what we have now.

This is a fine example of how actual war shatters the conventional paradigms, in reference to the F-35 debates. By 1861 there hadn't been a real great power war in 46 years, there was a real shaking out of what weapons and tactics were obsolete. You had armored steamboats against wooden tall ships, and brass cartridge repeating weapons on the same battlefield as muzzle loaders. The Europeans had military observers all over the battlefields taking notes.

I wonder if the Air Force attachment to expensive sexy fighter planes is like the Royal Navy's attachment to wooden sailing ships in the post Napoleonic era, letting identity trump battlefield reality.

[Smitty-48]

The F-35 program is 21st century Information Warfare; Full Market Dominance for the win.

[Smitty-48]

I wonder if the Air Force attachment to expensive sexy fighter planes is like the Royal Navy's attachment to wooden sailing ships in the post Napoleonic era, letting identity trump battlefield reality.

The sexy tech is all to save the pilot, if you don't care about losing pilots, you can go cheap and low tech, but the body bags will be piling up, which is why congress doesn't like that plan.