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@legeMontalto @JackSut75865817 @HistoryWJacob You mean Cold Harbor, not Spotsylvania.. was a serious tactical failure, but Grant’s campaign still pinned Lee, stripped him of the initiative, and forced him into a siege he could not survive. Judging Grant entirely by Cold Harbor is like judging Lee entirely by Pickett’s Charge

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@JackSut75865817 @HistoryWJacob Lee lost more men than Grant by a large margin.

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@MarioNawfal Not massive

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@EchoesofWarYT You recommend guelzo over sears for Gettysburg?

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@BarelyTrying92 @Noahpinion Is this a serious question

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@Noahpinion When you realize that Noah just isn’t that smart…

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@Sylvain0419 @JRoss6531 @EndWokeness You’ve never been to the rest of Georgia then. You’re a fucking clown.

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@EchoesofWarYT Command and generalship can be separated. Command can’t be anything but an A+… everyone knows he wasn’t the best tactician.

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@EloiseHenrietta @Hedgeye Low IQ comment

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@nabulionee2 @campinthewoods7 @TrueNorthish Wellesley better in tactics, Grant is far above in operational strategy. This isn’t even really a debate if you’re actually considering the terms we’re using to make the comparison

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@ArchaicMachine @TheBestqueenx You should throw it out. Children need to learn how to fall safely and protect their head. They can’t do that if youre preventing them from learning. Falling from standing up and knocking their head has almost no risk if they aren’t knocking it on an edge or concrete.

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@Noahpinion Japan and Germany didn’t have the resources (oil, iron ore, rubber, etc) within their own borders.

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@nabulionee2 @RoundheadNew Aggrandizing? Yeah you’ve never read Chernow 😂

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@Noahpinion At this point it’s obvious this clown is engagement farming

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@EmeraldKnight2k @SWT_Channel Not canon

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@DaYankeyHater @MistrrMax @trueliberal1848 Grant operated deep in enemy country, far from base, in unfamiliar terrain, against forces that outnumbered him in aggregate. The operational problem Grant solved was meaningfully harder than the problems Lee solved when he “did several times” something superficially similar

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@DaYankeyHater @MistrrMax @trueliberal1848 Lee’s “bold moves” (Jackson’s flank march at Second Manassas and Chancellorsville, the two invasions) were executed on interior lines in friendly or semi-friendly territory, with short supply chains, sympathetic civilians, and good intelligence. Some serious cope here

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@GDogwood6088 @Jeff_Davis1808 This is actual strategy. Strategy is about producing outcomes. Not “victory purely through maneuver”.

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@Jeff_Davis1808 Generals are judged by strategy and outcomes. This doesn’t take away from Lee’s tactical gifts. But in terms of strategy and outcomes, nothing else really matters. Lost cause narratives will never square that circle

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@TrentTelenko Amen. People think praising Grant for his strategic genius is somehow at odds with acknowledging Lee’s tactical genius.