Post-War Confederate Army.

BlondieBC

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The biggest driver of CSA army will be USA army. If the USA has a small army of 15,000, then the CSA will have a small army. However if the USA has a larger, centralized army, the CSA will need to follow. Say 100,000 union troops on the CSA/USA borders will change CSA beliefs about decentralization.
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
The biggest driver of CSA army will be USA army. If the USA has a small army of 15,000, then the CSA will have a small army. However if the USA has a larger, centralized army, the CSA will need to follow. Say 100,000 union troops on the CSA/USA borders will change CSA beliefs about decentralization.
Really? Their beliefs on decentralization remained staggeringly myopic even when those Union troops were well past the border and torching Atlanta.

There's also the fact that the Confederate mythology will say that numbers don't matter when it comes to fighting, merely "gallantry" or whatever the Rebs decide to call their version of élan.
 
The biggest driver of CSA army will be USA army. If the USA has a small army of 15,000, then the CSA will have a small army. However if the USA has a larger, centralized army, the CSA will need to follow. Say 100,000 union troops on the CSA/USA borders will change CSA beliefs about decentralization.

Nah. The real driver of the CS Army will be what it needs to police slavery, both in terms of suppressing real and imagined slave revolts and preventing slaves running away. The CSA will be progressively less able to afford the weapons of modern war and it will only get them if richer countries' arms industries think it would actually profit them. It will past a certain point be extremely dependent on foreign weaponry and thus even less able to wage any kind of offensive warfare, and CS military ideals will remain a time-warp of the pre-WWI concept of elan until reality sinks in cruelly around the time of the whole rotten structure falling apart.
 
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