raharris1973
Gone Fishin'
What if Jeff Davis and Alexander Stephens anticipated that securing
independence for the CSA would be at least as difficult for the 11
states as the American revolution was for the 13 colonies.
IE, they would expect that the CSA would have to be ready for an
eight-year war, and would need foreign assistance to clinch the deal.
The basic assumption is that the USA will not fight any less hard than
Britain fought two generations earlier, and the CSA needs to be ready
to string it out.
The CSA leaders would acknowledge and be glad that the south would
have far more capable armed forces at their disposal from the
beginning compared to the rag tag Continental Army of Washington. At
the same time, they would acknowledge this advantage would be at
least offset because the USA would have access to similarly organized
land forces and superior sea forces---and the US would have the luxury
of concentrating on the CSA, lots of proximate bases and not having to
worry about factors that distracted Britain in the ARW: Vulnerability
of other colonial possessions in the Caribbean, concern of the
European balance of power.
So, armed with this insight, what could they have done differently,
and could any of it work. Getting back to OTL, why did they think the
USA would give up more quickly than the UK?
independence for the CSA would be at least as difficult for the 11
states as the American revolution was for the 13 colonies.
IE, they would expect that the CSA would have to be ready for an
eight-year war, and would need foreign assistance to clinch the deal.
The basic assumption is that the USA will not fight any less hard than
Britain fought two generations earlier, and the CSA needs to be ready
to string it out.
The CSA leaders would acknowledge and be glad that the south would
have far more capable armed forces at their disposal from the
beginning compared to the rag tag Continental Army of Washington. At
the same time, they would acknowledge this advantage would be at
least offset because the USA would have access to similarly organized
land forces and superior sea forces---and the US would have the luxury
of concentrating on the CSA, lots of proximate bases and not having to
worry about factors that distracted Britain in the ARW: Vulnerability
of other colonial possessions in the Caribbean, concern of the
European balance of power.
So, armed with this insight, what could they have done differently,
and could any of it work. Getting back to OTL, why did they think the
USA would give up more quickly than the UK?