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What does that have to do with anything? I didn't say the US Army could have beaten any other army in the world in 1856 or in 1865 or whenever, because it's a silly claim to make.

When one country was fully mobilized with a large army it could defeat a variety of enemies that are still on a peacetime footing, but so what? A year later, you've demobilized your army, the other guys have assembled theirs and you'd get a different result.

It's not really a useful comparison -- all the more so since by the time one army had fully crossed the Atlantic, the other probably would be mobilized and ready to fight.

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cva thinks in relativistic terms so it’s easy to confuse him by lines of reasoning such as yours. Go easy on him ;’)