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Discuss, assuming say 1850 as POD.
(not necessarily North-South, even East-West or strange combinations are welcome)
With world scenery, weapons and societal implications.
An isolated war watched in awe from a distance? Or like Spain, THE defining conflict of its time? The crumbling of a hyperpower by sheer weight or the convulsions of a defeated country? A "gloves on" chivalric war of rules by rifle-and-cannon or beastlike ferocity ruled by spiked clubs, electrified barb wire, chemicals, nukes? Noble causes or naked greed? Red Cross or extermination camps?
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