
How A Democracy Fights
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
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The War Between the West and the East
Grant and Sherman were probably the two greatest military mines in the United States produced. They got along with each other, and they worked in tandem strengths complement each other. But once you got those two guys as the two prominent generals, it was pretty certain that the only way they could have won was to have gone into a completely defensive mode of war. The Union's aims were completely different. It was, we just can't let them be alone. We have to go down there in a size almost the same size as Western Europe. And we have to nation build and change them.
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