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Nature of American Civil War
Title: Nature of American Civil War
Category: History
Details: Words: 1950 | Pages: 8.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Nature of American Civil War
To what extent was the American Civil War, the first modern war?
The Great War witnessed a significant departure from the Napoleonic tactics and technology familiar to contemporary European military thinkers. Although the defining factor remains ambiguous, there is a tacit acceptance that the First World War epitomises the ‘modern war.’ It was a conflict of mass armies waged with highly efficient weaponry, which, coupled with the absolute pursuit of victory, eroded the pseudo-chivilaric concepts …showed first 75 words of 1950 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1950 total…It is almost inconceivable that conditions, not least geographically or climatically, would have been the same all over such a sprawling campaign map. Consequently, while Farmer splits the war in two, claiming that with the introduction of the Springfield in 1863 it moved towards becoming a modern war, it ought to be borne in mind that regional disparities must still have occurred and therefore in some areas the conflict, may have been more modern than others.
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