Posted on 12/26/2011 1:31:13 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
I have been reading the letters back and forth about the military training, and would like to point out that our military is trying to be ready.
To be ready we have to train. Our army was not ready, and lacked skilled leadership when the Civil War started, many of the good officers had gone to the other side, which was far from ready also, and the next years were spent blundering against each other until the strongest got ready learning from its many mistakes and finally overpowered the other side.
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