Actually that's misleading. In the 1770s Britain had the perfect strategies to destroy the colonies, they just had complete incompetents to execute them. What lost the war for the British in any case was the intervention of the French, who propped up the American Rebels without doing a single thing.
The United States also was not at war with North Vietnam in the earliest phase of the Second Indochina War, the Viet Cong were indigenous Southern communists who the NVA ensured were wiped out at the Tet Offensive.
There was a real chance Lincoln could have lost the 1864 election so a War Democrat would have taken charge to impose peace without a 13th Amendment but with the war continuing. How McClellan would have interacted with Grant is a good question. There was also, however, a chance for the Union to defeat the Confederacy in June of 1864 by seizing Petersburg and drawing the ANV into the battle Grant wanted all along, which would have ended the US Civil War in June of 1864.
For that matter a Union victory at Chickamauga (the defeat was due to a miscommunication, not Bragg's skill as a general) would have given the winter 1863 campaigns a very different character.
The persistence of the Confederacy was due to the sheer ability of modern wars to last quite a bit longer than the people who start them predict they would. By the same token after the Battle of Atlanta the Confederacy was essentially Richmond and the Army of Northern Virginia. Just like Germany had lost the war well before May 1945 and Imperial Japan lost World War II at Leyte Gulf, over a year before it had no choice but to acknowledge defeat.
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Date: 29/11/10 22:01 (UTC)The United States also was not at war with North Vietnam in the earliest phase of the Second Indochina War, the Viet Cong were indigenous Southern communists who the NVA ensured were wiped out at the Tet Offensive.
There was a real chance Lincoln could have lost the 1864 election so a War Democrat would have taken charge to impose peace without a 13th Amendment but with the war continuing. How McClellan would have interacted with Grant is a good question. There was also, however, a chance for the Union to defeat the Confederacy in June of 1864 by seizing Petersburg and drawing the ANV into the battle Grant wanted all along, which would have ended the US Civil War in June of 1864.
For that matter a Union victory at Chickamauga (the defeat was due to a miscommunication, not Bragg's skill as a general) would have given the winter 1863 campaigns a very different character.
The persistence of the Confederacy was due to the sheer ability of modern wars to last quite a bit longer than the people who start them predict they would. By the same token after the Battle of Atlanta the Confederacy was essentially Richmond and the Army of Northern Virginia. Just like Germany had lost the war well before May 1945 and Imperial Japan lost World War II at Leyte Gulf, over a year before it had no choice but to acknowledge defeat.