Let’s start with a quote from Jay Winik’s April 1865:
“War, for victors and losers alike, is invariably about a series of contingent ‘ifs.’ The only thing certain about war is its uncertainty and unpredictability, as the master military theorist Karl von Clausewitz has reminded us. And, time and again, history has borne out Clausewitz. The English unexp…
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