Which war is the first modern war? Was it the Napolianic wars, the Crimean War or the American Civil War? If you Google it, it would be between the Crimean War and the American Civil War. However each of these wars can be considered the first modern war based on different merits. These wars can share similarities between each other which can create confusion over the question what was the first modern war. Following the French Revolution the idea of the state was changed the boundaries and leaders soon began the rallying cry for people to fight for the nation. “The war of 1792 to 1814/15 thus became - first unilaterally by France and then by the belated and usually hesitant response of France’s victims - the first modern war, the first war between nations.” War at this time changed from limited aims to “potentially unlimited in both aims and methods for nations.” The Crimean War can also be considered the first modern war and it shares some similarities with the Civil War specifically looking at technology used during the war. This is understandable as they occurred relatively close together. The Crimean War ended in 1856 and the Civil War started in 1861. The Crimean War is considered the first modern war due to technology, transportation and media. What is one of the main reasons why the Crimean War is considered the first modern war because it could be argued it provided the “origins of the ‘moral interventionism’ practiced by our own liberal governments in the Balkans and the Middle East.” This war is also considered the first modern war due to the use of mass media. Due to the telegraph citizens in London were able to follow the war being fought in the Crimean and this helped shape the British “national consciousness”. The A... ... middle of paper ... ...ovember 11, 2013. http://www.newseum.org/warstories/technology/flash.htm Christopher Howse, “First and Greatest War Correspondent,” The Telegraph, February 9, 2007, accessed October 5, 2013, http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/christopherhowse/3647251/First_and_greatest_war_correspondent/ Gabel, Christopher. Railroad Generalship: Foundations of Civil War Strategy. Excerpt reprinted in US Army Command and General Staff College, H100 Book of Readings. Fort Lee, VA: ILE, September 2013. Gabel, Christopher. Rails to Oblivion: The Decline of Confederate Railroads in the Civil War. Excerpt reprinted in US Army Command and General Staff College, H100 Book of Readings. Fort Lee, VA: ILE, September 2013. “Mediander connects military strategy to total war,” mediander.com, Accessed November 11, 2013. http://www.mediander.com/connects/91515/military-strategy/#!/29974/total-war
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Henry Steele Commager’s essay “The Defeat of the Confederacy: An Overview” is more summary than argument. Commager is more concerned with highlighting the complex causality of the war’s end rather than attempting to give a definitive answer. Commager briefly muses over both the South’s strengths
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No other war seems to hold our focus like the Civil War. Scholars have chosen to make it their life's work, authors have written reams about it, and we all feel some kind of connection to the Civil War. This paper was created to highlight some of the major battles that took place during that conflict. Major battles usually marked a drastic change in the momentum from one side to the other or led to massive losses of troops. These battles and their results all played a huge part in the outcome of the war.
...n his volunteer-troops, rather than an “exceptionally well drilled and experienced army.” The Civil War required a “quickly improvised…realistic standard for mid-nineteenth century America.” Which, as Griffith points out, they either did “ineffectively or reverted to outdated tactics disastrously.” The developments of technology certainly had a very large role in the way the war was fought but what truly caused the shift from Napoleonic to modern warfare was the fact that America was not Europe and the battle was for a cause much more powerful than land acquisition and discourse with another nation, but rather ideological dissonance within. Both authors analyzed how the United States’ differed from the countries across the Atlantic in order to provide some explanation regarding the nature of the Civil War and why it took so many lives before it came to an end.
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