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The Grand Design - Strategy and the U.S. Civil War (Hardcover)
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The Grand Design - Strategy and the U.S. Civil War (Hardcover)
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Of the tens of thousands of books exploring virtually every aspect
of the Civil War, surprisingly little has been said about what was
in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict:
differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design,
Donald Stoker provides a comprehensive and often surprising account
of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox.
Reminding us that strategy is different from tactics (battlefield
deployments) and operations (campaigns conducted in pursuit of a
strategy), Stoker examines how Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
identified their political goals and worked with their generals to
craft the military means to achieve them-or how they often failed
to do so. Stoker shows that Davis, despite a West Point education
and experience as Secretary of War, failed as a strategist by
losing control of the political side of the war. His invasion of
Kentucky was a turning point that shifted the loyalties and vast
resources of the border states to the Union. Lincoln, in contrast,
evolved a clear strategic vision, but he failed for years to make
his generals implement it. At the level of generalship, Stoker
notes that Robert E. Lee correctly determined the Union's center of
gravity, but proved mistaken in his assessment of how to destroy
it. Stoker also presents evidence that the Union could have won the
war in 1862, had it followed the grand plan of the much-derided
general, George B. McClellan. Historians have often argued that the
North's advantages in population and industry ensured certain
victory. In The Grand Design, Stoker reasserts the centrality of
the overarching military ideas-the strategy-on each side, arguing
convincingly that it was strategy that determined the war's
outcome.
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